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Viennese trichord
Component intervals from root
tritone
minor second
root
The Viennese trichord.

In music theory, a Viennese trichord (Play) is prime form <0,1,6>; the pitch class set 0, 1, and 6, including 11 (since 12=0,6=6, and -1=11). Named for the Second Viennese School it has Forte #3-5. As opposed to Hindemith and 037, "Composers such as Webern, on the other hand, are partial to 016 trichords, given their 'more dissonant' inclusion of ics 1 and 6."[1]

Sources

  1. ^ Henry Martin (Winter, 2000). "Seven Steps to Heaven: A Species Approach to Twentieth-Century Analysis and Composition", p.149, Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 129-168.