A musical scale of six notes with a semitone between the third and fourth. An overlapping series of seven such scales starting on G, C, and F formed the basis of medieval music theory.
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Schoenberg never intended the 12-note technique to exclude possible tonal implications, and his use of hexachords is a close analogy to tonal practice.
In the early years of the seventeenth century, English composers increasingly turned to the hexachord as a cantus firmus for keyboard pieces.
Medieval diatonicism, which did not include the principle of octave equivalence, was codified by Guido of Arezzo in the early 11th century: it acknowledged notes from G to e, arranged in seven overlapping hexachords.
I think one has to admit that in the works where I use the symmetrical hexachord, one probably can't any longer speak of my music as being twelve-tone music, that is, certainly not in the academic sense.
At the end, the same six pitch-classes provide the concluding hexachord of the tranquil violin melody.
Definition of hexachord in US English:
hexachord
nounˈheksəˌkôrd
A musical scale of six notes with a half step between the third and fourth. An overlapping series of seven such scales starting on G, C, and F formed the basis of medieval music theory.
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Example sentencesExamples
In the early years of the seventeenth century, English composers increasingly turned to the hexachord as a cantus firmus for keyboard pieces.
I think one has to admit that in the works where I use the symmetrical hexachord, one probably can't any longer speak of my music as being twelve-tone music, that is, certainly not in the academic sense.
Schoenberg never intended the 12-note technique to exclude possible tonal implications, and his use of hexachords is a close analogy to tonal practice.
At the end, the same six pitch-classes provide the concluding hexachord of the tranquil violin melody.
Medieval diatonicism, which did not include the principle of octave equivalence, was codified by Guido of Arezzo in the early 11th century: it acknowledged notes from G to e, arranged in seven overlapping hexachords.