A Geometric Representation of Pitch-Class Series
John Roeder
Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 25, No. 1/2, 25th Anniversary Issue, (Winter - Summer,
1987), pp. 362-409.
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JOHN ROEDER
|ANY RECENT DISCUSSIONS of atonal music employ the theory of unoe-
dered pitch-class (pe) sets formulated by Forte (1973) and others. Pe-set
theory teats the propertis and relations of pe collections, such as similarity of
interval