Schoenberg hexachord

6-Z44: "Schoenberg hexachord"  Play .

6-Z19: "Schoenberg hexachord" complement in prime form  Play .

"Schoenberg hexachord" at "EsCHBEG" transposition and ordering  Play .

6-Z44 (012569), known as the Schoenberg hexachord, is Arnold Schoenberg's signature hexachord, as one transposition contains the pitches Es, C, H, B, E, G (Schoenberg), E♭, B, and B♭ being Es, H, and B in German.^[1] (see: musical cryptogram)

Its Z-related hexachord and complement is 6-Z19^[1] (3478te or, in prime form, 013478). They have the interval vector of <3,1,3,4,3,1> in common.^[1] 6-Z44 lacks prime and inversional combinatoriality.

Schoenberg used the hexachord in the song "Seraphita" (op. 22 no. 1) and the monodrama Die glückliche Hand.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Friedmann, Michael L. (1990). Ear Training for Twentieth-Century Music, p.109. ISBN 0-300-04537-9.
2. ↑ Simms, Bryan R. (2000). The Atonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg, 1908-1923, p.145. ISBN 0-19-512826-5.

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