Dodecatonic Cycles and Parsimonious Voice-Leading in the Mystic-Wozzeck Genus
This addresses a domain-specific problem in music theory for researchers studying chord structures and voice-leading, and it appears incremental as it builds on existing Neo-Riemannian theory.
The paper tackles the problem of modeling voice-leading for mystic and Wozzeck chords by developing a unified model based on perturbing symmetric octave partitions and defining new Neo-Riemannian transformations, resulting in visual representations of these voice-leading regions.
This paper develops a unified voice-leading model for the genus of mystic and Wozzeck chords. These voice-leading regions are constructed by perturbing symmetric partitions of the octave, and new Neo-Riemannian transformations between nearly symmetric hexachords are defined. The behaviors of these transformations are shown within visual representations of the voice-leading regions for the mystic-Wozzeck genus.