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Using Tonnetz Tone Mesh to Understand Jazz Harmony

• kazinator 2y ago
  The "negative harmony" bit (i.e. pitch class inversion) works here by 180 degree rotation exactly the same way it works on string instruments. (We can imagine a musical instrument based on this Tonnetz mesh). For instance if you take a C major scale pattern laid out somewhere on the first four strings of the guitar (we avoid the inconsistency of the G to B string being a major third) and you rotate it 180, you get a Phrygian pattern: Ionian: -*---*-*- -*-*---*- ---*---*- Phrygian: -*---*--- -*---*-*- -*-*---*- The intervals are different in this mesh but the rotation inverts them the same way.