Monad (music)

In music, a monad is a single note or pitch.[1] The Western chromatic scale, for example, is composed of twelve monads. Monads are contrasted to dyads, groups of two notes, triads, groups of three, and so on.

Monad example, the note 'A'.

All Cs possible on a piano (except C₈, available on grand)

References

Castine, Peter (1994). Set Theory Objects: Abstractions for Computer-Aided Analysis and Composition of Serial and Atonal Music, p.33. ISBN 978-3-631-47897-4.

Pitch segments by cardinality (list)
Monad Dyad Trichord Viennese Tetrachord All-interval Pentachord Hexachord All-trichord Chromatic Diatonic Mystic "Ode-to-Napoleon" Petrushka Sacher Schoenberg Aggregate

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