Two notions of well-formedness in the organization of musical pitch

Musicae Scientiae

Volumn 14, Issue 1_suppl, 2010, Pages 95-113

  Noll, Thomas ^a  

^a Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya Music Education   (Spain)

Author keywords

Christoffel duality; generic specific dichotomy; pitch hierarchies; well formed modes; well formed scales; well formedness condition for the basic space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864209533     PISSN: 10298649     EISSN: 20454147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/10298649100140S106     Document Type: Article

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