Complexe sonore

The complexe sonore is an octatonic chord consisting of minor third relations.[1] More precisely, the complexe sonore is Igor Stravinsky's use of diatonic and whole tone motifs, and scales, against an octatonic background, rotated by minor thirds.Stravinsky "considered them to be in a perpetual state of potential symmetrical rotation by minor thirds under which the octatonic background scale is invariant."[3] Dmitri Tymoczko argues that Stravinsky's octatonicism results "from two other compositional techniques: modal use of non-diatonic minor scales, and superimposition of elements belonging to different scales."[4] This music theory article is a stub.
Complexe sonore : the octatonic scale may be arranged as four major chords or seventh chords [ 1 ] Play ⓘ .
Octatonic scale on E (bottom), and symmetrical rotations by minor third (t3) of the Dorian mode on E, G, B ♭ , and D ♭ , (top three) from that scale. [ 2 ]
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