Generalized voice exchange

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

7-13-2009

Abstract

The notion of voice exchange in ordered pitch-class space conforms closely to that of contextual inversion in neo-Riemannian theory: the melodic dyad (a, b) in one voice inverts in another voice, and we define an axis of inversion respectively for all such pairs. We may thus apply many of the transformational concepts of neo-Riemannian theory to a study of voice exchange. We draw our musical examples from the Prelude to Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, for which a separate analytical thread exists that considers aspects of tonality in relation to the voice exchange in the resolution of the Tristan Chord. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Communications in Computer and Information Science

First Page

228

Last Page

235

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