The notion of a pitch‑class set reframes our understanding of musical material by stripping away the vertical dimension that most listeners intuitively associate with tonality. In practice, a pitch ...
Claude Debussy’s personal style is typically characterised as a departure from earlier diatonic tonality, including a greater variety of pitch-class materials organised in fragmented yet coherent ...
Theories of the origin of musical scales from the ancient Greeks to the present day have assumed that the intervals comprising scales are defined by specific mathematical ratios. Such theories are ...