The Mathematics of Musical Composition
Gresham College Lectures
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Do You Really Know How to Transform Your Tone Rows?
In the early twentieth century, there was a lot of exploration into how we can move away from your key signature. And if you're doing that, you don't want just to have nothing. So what structure are you going to replace your key signatures with? And one answer is tone rows. Now only the pitch class matters, so you can go up or down as many octaves as you like. It's you no easy to s the c comes third in that list, thato. That's where it's going to be.
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