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Understanding Pitch Class Sets by Augusto Lopes is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Pitch class sets are a method used in 20th century music to describe harmonies independent of octave displacement or enharmonic spelling. They are represented by lists of pitch class numbers that ignore octave placement. Operations like transposition and inversion can be used to manipulate pitch class sets. Sets that only differ by transposition or inversion are considered to belong to the same set class. The prime form is a standard representation of a set class that is in its simplest ordered form.
- Author
- Augusto Lopes
- Language
- EN