Friday, November 6, 2009

Petrushka chord

Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka is characterized by the so-called Petrushka


chord',' which combines major triads transpositionally related by a tritone. Taruskin's


ascription of explanatory power to the chord's status as an octatonic subset has


been challenged by Tymoczko

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