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Rimsky-Korsakov

The Golden Cockerel — octatonic and whole-tone magic

Rimsky-Korsakov's magic scales: the octatonic as a pool, a sieve mirrored onto itself, and a cycle of triads a minor third apart — then the whole-tone sea.

4 cells47 nodes12 voices
The Golden Cockerel — octatonic and whole-tone magic: the opening bars as grafer engraved them
The notation, exactly as grafer engraved it from the graph.

How it is built

The Golden Cockerel — Rimsky-Korsakov's symmetrical scales. The octatonic collection as a Pandiatonic pool, as a Sieve on a chromatic run mirrored onto itself, and as a cycle of triads a minor third apart; then the whole-tone sea.

The graph

The node graph of The Golden Cockerel — octatonic and whole-tone magic in grafer's Graf editor

Nodes in this study

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