Sentences with hexachords
- At the end, the same six pitch-classes provide the concluding hexachord of the tranquil violin melody.
- I think one has to admit that in the works where I use the symmetrical hexachord, one probably can't any longer speak of my music as being twelve-tone music, that is, certainly not in the academic sense.
- In the early years of the seventeenth century, English composers increasingly turned to the hexachord as a cantus firmus for keyboard pieces.
- Schoenberg never intended the 12-note technique to exclude possible tonal implications, and his use of hexachords is a close analogy to tonal practice.