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Example 3.1 Example 3.2

The speciéc retrograde K-nets of Example 2.3 can be found on

the various P-cycles here explored by suitable combinations of
CURSOR and FLIP transformations.

3. harmonic trichords in the webern passage

We shall now articulate the Webern passage of Example 2.1

into a different family of four trichords. In Example 3.1, the visu-
ally vertical trichords represent the most obvious parsing of the
Webern passage into various three-note harmonies. Each trichord
includes an interval-6 dyad; accordingly, the trichords can all be
represented by mutually isographic K-nets. Example 3.2 illustrates
the phenomenon. The eight K-nets of Example 3.2 have among
them the six graphs of Example 3.3, labeled alpha, retalpha, and
so forth.11
Graph retalpha, of Example 3.3, is kT 6l of graph alpha.
(Retalpha has the same T-number(s) as alpha; each I-number of
retalpha is the corresponding I-number of alpha, plus 6.) Like-
wise, alpha is kT 6l of retalpha. Likewise, beta and retbeta are each
selves here to “inner automorphisms,” we would be unable to speak of our kT1 l-
isography, which invokes an “outer automorphism,” so that the recursive fea-
tures of Examples 2.4 and 2.5 would not be available to us.
11 As with Example 2.2 earlier, isography theory observes about four of the
distinct K-nets in Example 3.2 only that they can be represented by the two
graphs beta and retbeta of Example 3.3. As noted earlier, isography theory—
unlike P-cycle theory—does not discriminate among the K-nets themselves, but
only inspects their graphs. Klumpenhouwer’s “inner automorphisms” (of note
10) can do better. Unlike kT1l, kT 6l can arise from an inner automorphism.
kT6l of the other. Likewise, gamma and retgamma are each kT 6l of
the other.
Alpha and beta are related by kIAl. (The T-numbers of alpha
and beta are complements mod 12; corresponding I-numbers of
alpha and beta add to ten.) Retalpha and beta are related by kI4l.
(The T-numbers of retalpha and beta are complements mod 12;
corresponding I-numbers of retalpha and beta add to four.) We can
therefore assert the super-network transformational arrangement
of Example 3.4.
The supernetwork of the example has a graph isomorphic to
the K-net graph of Example 3.5. (The graphs are isomorphic be-
cause the kTls and kIls behave, as a mathematical group, just like
the correspondingly labeled Ts and Is.) And the graph of Example
3.5 is isomorphic to graph alpha. (Alpha and Example 3.5 have
the same T-numbers; the I-numbers of Example 3.5 are the corre-
sponding I-numbers of alpha, plus 1; Example 3.5 is accordingly
kT1l of graph alpha.) Accordingly, the supernetwork of Example

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