Symmetry is a common tool in composition, but no one has thoroughly studied all symmetry patterns that are possible in music... until now! “Symmetry and Transformations in the Musical Plane” will appear in the proceedings of BRIDGES 2009, and I'll be in Banff this summer to present it.
Related to this paper is a seven-movement piece in which each movement is inspired by and contains the symmetry of each of the seven frieze patterns. The piece will ultimately be a piano trio, but three movements of the piano sketch are now available:
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