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hexatonic pole: a standalone construct

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the relation between a major and a minor triad that share no tones but sit at opposite points of a hexatonic cycle, linked in late-Romantic music to the uncanny.

In music theory, hexatonic pole refers to the relation between a major and a minor triad that share no tones but sit at opposite points of a hexatonic cycle, linked in late-Romantic music to the uncanny. This meaning comes from Cohn (2004) in Journal of the American Musicological Society.[1]

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cycle4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructshexatonic cycle1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructminor3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three carriers

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  1. Cohn, R. (2004). Uncanny Resemblances: Tonal Signification in the Freudian Age. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 57(2), 285-324. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2004.57.2.285

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