Thursday, June 23, 2022

5-34 and its hexachords--V#11

This is a follow-up to the previous post, where I showed what happens when you expand the major dominant ninth (seen as a pc-set) by a note. Here I will take the first of the hexachords generated that way--see below--and go the reverse direction, successively removing a note to generate its six constituent pentachords.


Hexachord 1 has the complete contents of the major dominant #11, here, G-B-D-F-A-C#. It's no surprise, then, that the pentachords produce a variety of interesting -1 voicings of that chord: