Building generalized neo-Riemannian groups of musical transformations as extensions

DOI10.1080/17459737.2013.768712MaRDI QIDQ3453716zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexandre Popoff

Publication date 30 November 2015

Published in Journal of Mathematics and Music (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4451

zbMATH Keywords

2-cocyclescontextual transformationsgroup actiongroup extensionsneo-Riemannian theoryrhythmtime-spantransformation theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematics and music (00A65)

Abstract: Chords in musical harmony can be viewed as objects having shapes (major/minor/etc.) attached to base sets (pitch class sets). The base set and the shape set are usually given the structure of a group, more particularly a cyclic group. In a more general setting, any object could be defined by its position on a base set and by its internal shape or state. The goal of this paper is to determine the structure of simply transitive groups of transformations acting on such sets of objects with internal symmetries. In the main proposition, we state that, under simple axioms, these groups can be built as group extensions of the group associated to the base set by the group associated to the shape set, or the other way. By doing so, interesting groups of transformations are obtained, including the traditional ones such as the dihedral groups. The knowledge of the group structure and product allows to explicitly build group actions on the objects. In particular we differentiate between left and right group actions and we show how they are related to non-contextual and contextual transformations. Finally we show how group extensions can be used to build transformational models of time-spans and rhythms.

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