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Deine
Wellen umspielten mich (Your waves were playing around me)
Josef (Matthias) Hauer |
Basis of the composition: the trope
What is a trope?
A trope contains all the 12 notes of the chromatic scale within the scope of a major seventh, no note occurs twice, no note is left out, but the notes are not arranged in the form of a twelve-note row like in Schönberg,
A chromatic scale:
Listen to the music example
These 12 notes are mixed up at random and displayed:
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As a next step this twelve-note set is divided into 2 sets with 6 notes each.
Once again the chromatic scale with a separation into a left and a right half:
The left half contains the notes: G flat, G, A, B flat, D flat and E flat. The right half contains the notes: A flat, B, C, D, E and F.
The voices in the trope 
Further information:
 Trope
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