Suggested Learning Resources
3) Online Reading: Set Class Table http://www.mta.ca/pc-set/pc-set_new/pages/pc-table/pc-table.html
Set-Class-Labels come from Allen Forte’s Set-Class List.
- Allen Forte provided labels (which are two numbers connected with a dash)
- The prime form of a Set-Class is often written with the Set-Class-Label
on Allen Forte's List (by definition, all pitch-class-sets within the Set-Class have
the same Interval-Class-Vector, so the vector is often listed as well)
- Set-Classes are grouped together on the list with the same number of elements.
(This number is called their cardinality)
- The first number of a Set-Class-Label is pitch-class-set's cardinality.
- The second number orders the labels by Interval Class Vector. (The second
number is given by Forte, but represents its position on the list. (4-34 has 4 elements
and it appears 34th on the list)
- You can use the Allen Forte ‘table’ when analyzing atonal music.
- First identify a musical segment within the atonal work
- find the prime form of the segment.
- Look up the set-class label from the Forte table.
https://youtu.be/3LvUqWIxquw?t=9m49s
Objective 54.3: Read and locate set-class-labels from Allen-Forte's set-class list