Composing with Rotational Arrays
In the later part of Igor Stravinsky’s career (1882 – 1971), in the 1950s, he started writing serial and twelve-tone music by creating a hexachord array and rotating the notes in this array to be used for both melodic lines and structural harmony. This technique became Stravinsky’s most characteristic element in his compositions. The hexachord Read more about Composing with Rotational Arrays[…]