Sacher hexachord

Edit links
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
See also: Paul Sacher § "eSACHERe"
minor secondrootForte no. / Complement6-Z11 / 6-Z40Interval vector
<3,3,3,2,3,1>

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 (12 Hommages à Paul Sacher) created at the invitation of Mstislav Rostropovich for Sacher's seventieth birthday in 1976.

The twelve compositions include

Sur Incises all use rows with the same pitches.[4]

The

Z-relation
, 6-Z40.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-521-68200-8
    (pbk).
  2. ISBN 9780521227995
    .
  3. ISBN 9780521629287
    .
  4. ISBN 978-0-521-86242-4
    .

External links


Stub icon

This music theory article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacher_hexachord&oldid=1219902086"