Stravinsky

Requiem Canticles — a rotational array

Requiem Canticles: a hexachord rotated and transposed into six rows, read across for melody and down for the verticals, then fragmented through rests.

3 cells76 nodes8 voices

Requiem Canticles — a rotational array: the opening bars as grafer engraved them — The notation, exactly as grafer engraved it from the graph.

How it is built

Requiem Canticles — late Stravinsky's rotational array: a hexachord rotated and transposed into six rows, read across for melody and down for the verticals, then fragmented through rests.

The graph

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Nodes in this study

Chain
Chord
Cresc / Dim
Insert Rests
Mirror
Permute
Pitch List
Receive
Rhythm Repeat
Rhythm Tree
Rotate
Send
Telescope
Transpose
Voice
Voice Layer

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