Sacher_hexachord

Sacher hexachord

Sacher hexachord

Musical motif forming Paul Sacher's name

See also: Paul Sacher § "eSACHERe"

The Sacher hexachord (6-Z11, musical cryptogram on the name of Swiss conductor Paul Sacher) is a hexachord notable for its use in a set of twelve compositions (12 Hommages à Paul Sacher) created at the invitation of Mstislav Rostropovich for Sacher's seventieth birthday in 1976.

Sacher hexachord[1]Playⓘ: E♭ (Es) A C B (H) E D (Re)
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The twelve compositions include Pierre Boulez's Messagesquisse, Hans Werner Henze's Capriccio, Witold Lutosławski's Sacher Variation, and Henri Dutilleux's Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher.[2][3] Messagesquisse is dedicated to Sacher, but Boulez's Répons, Dérive 1, Incises, and Sur Incises all use rows with the same pitches.[4]

The hexachord's complement is its Z-relation, 6-Z40.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Arnold Whittall, The Cambridge Introduction to Serialism, Cambridge Introductions to Music (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008): 206. ISBN 978-0-521-86341-4 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-521-68200-8 (pbk).
  2. [2]
    Steven Stucky, Lutosławski and His Music (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981): 97. ISBN 9780521227995.
  3. [3]
    Robin Stowell, The Cambridge Companion to the Cello (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999): 144. ISBN 9780521629287.
  4. [4]
    Edward Campbell, Boulez, Music and Philosophy, . (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010): 206. ISBN 978-0-521-86242-4.


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