Article: Residue-class sets in the music of Iannis Xenakis: an analytical algorithm and a general intervallic expression.

IN A 1990 ARTICLE entitled "Sieves," IANNIS XENAKIS elaborated upon the description of sieve theory he gave twenty years before in "Towards a Metamusic," which was also included in his monograph, Formalized Music. (1) XENAKIS'S "sieves" are custom-designed collections constructed from interwoven chains of elements (pitches, rhythms, timbres, textures, or iterations in some other parameter) separated by congruent intervals. The "sieve" label is a metaphor for the set-theoretical filtration process involved in restricting the compositional material to members of carefully chosen sets that exhibit internal intervallic repetition at one or more levels. Constituting an open ...

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