Day: March 17, 2008
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(musTh 212) Pitch-Class Sets and Interval Vectors, Part 1
Pitch-Class Sets Pitch-Class Sets are unordered collections of pitch-classes. Normal Form. The normal form of a pitch-class set is the most compressed way of writing the set in ascending pitch-class order. Compressed means traversing the shortest interval from first pitch-class to last, and placing smaller intervals first. Transposition. A pitch-class set can be transposed by…