A General Approach to Enharmonicism

📅 2026-09-07
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本文提出了一种基于音乐句法理论处理变音现象的一般方法,构建了由自然、半音和变音构成的抽象结构,并提出了反射和最大均匀性两个标准来评估变音系统的实用性。
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We propose a general approach to enharmonicism within syntactic music theory; that is, we formalize several abstract structures of enharmonicism without any acoustic considerations. The structures of concern to this paper are constructed from diatonics, chromatics, and enharmonics, and we seek to present a general enharmonic theory that builds upon Hook's enharmonic theory published in "Enharmonic Systems: A Theory of Key Signatures, Enharmonic Equivalence and Diatonicism" (2007). We also propose that the two criteria of reflection and maximal evenness can be used to determine whether an arbitrary enharmonic system is musically practical. Moreover, we argue that preferential treatment of the standard enharmonic system (SES) can be motivated from an abstract mathematical perspective divorced from pitch consideration and conventional acoustic constructions of SES.
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enharmonicism
syntactic music theory
abstract structures
diatonics
chromatics
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enharmonicism
syntactic music theory
reflection
maximal evenness
standard enharmonic system
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Caleb Scott Alons
Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri - Columbia