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Mikrokosmos — Bulgarian rhythm, polymodal chromaticism, the axis

Mikrokosmos: Bulgarian rhythm from the Aksak usûl and changing groupings, Lydian over Phrygian on one tonic, and the axis system walked through every root.

4 cells41 nodes9 voices

Mikrokosmos — Bulgarian rhythm, polymodal chromaticism, the axis: the opening bars as grafer engraved them — The notation, exactly as grafer engraved it from the graph.

How it is built

Mikrokosmos — Bulgarian rhythm from the Aksak usûl and changing additive groupings, polymodal chromaticism from Lydian over Phrygian on one tonic, and Lendvai's axis system walked through every root.

The graph

The node graph of Mikrokosmos — Bulgarian rhythm, polymodal chromaticism, the axis in grafer's Graf editor

Nodes in this study

Arithmetic
Chord
Cresc / Dim
Meter Sequence
Pitch List
Pitch Multiply
Rhythm Repeat
Rhythm Tree
Scale Quantize
Seq Repeat
Telescope
Transpose
Usûl
Voice
Voice Layer

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