
In
music
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...
, a monad is a single
note
Note, notes, or NOTE may refer to:
Music and entertainment
* Musical note, a pitched sound (or a symbol for a sound) in music
* ''Notes'' (album), a 1987 album by Paul Bley and Paul Motian
* ''Notes'', a common (yet unofficial) shortened versi ...
or
pitch.
[Castine, Peter (1994). ''Set Theory Objects: Abstractions for Computer-Aided Analysis and Composition of Serial and Atonal Music'', p.33. .] The Western
chromatic scale
The chromatic scale (or twelve-tone scale) is a set of twelve pitches (more completely, pitch classes) used in tonal music, with notes separated by the interval of a semitone. Chromatic instruments, such as the piano, are made to produce the ...
, for example, is composed of twelve monads. Monads are contrasted to
dyads, groups of two notes,
triads, groups of three, and so on.
References
Intervals (music)
Simultaneities (music)
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