Definition of Hexachord. Meaning of Hexachord. Synonyms of Hexachord

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Definition of Hexachord

Hexachord
Hexachord Hex"a*chord, n. [Hexa- + Gr. ? string, chord: cf. F. hexacorde.] (Mus.) A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.

Meaning of Hexachord from wikipedia

- In music, a hexachord (also hexachordon) is a six-note series, as exhibited in a scale (hexatonic or hexad) or tone row. The term was adopted in this...
- 6-Z44 (012569), known as the Schoenberg hexachord, is Arnold Schoenberg's signature hexachord, as one transposition contains the pitches [A], Es, C, H...
- the hexachord system defined by Guido of Arezzo. The basic system, called musica recta, had three overlapping hexachords. Change from one hexachord to...
- The Sacher hexachord (6-Z11, musical cryptogram on the name of Swiss conductor Paul Sacher) is a hexachord notable for its use in a set of twelve compositions...
- P-0/I-5 to create "two aggregates, between the first hexachords of each, and the second hexachords of each, respectively." Combinatoriality is a side effect...
- of hexachords each may be referred to as a Z-hexachord. Any hexachord not of the "Z" type is its own complement while the complement of a Z-hexachord is...
- teaching his hexachord. The Guidonian hand is closely linked with Guido's new ideas about how to learn music, including the use of hexachords, and the first...
- and may be considered a generated collection. Due to this symmetry, the hexachord consisting of the whole-tone scale is not distinct under inversion or...
- the chromatic hexachord is the hexachord consisting of a consecutive six-note segment of the chromatic scale. It is the first hexachord as ordered by...
- of Arezzo invented a notational system that named the six notes of the hexachord after the first syllable of each line of the Latin hymn "Ut queant laxis"...