Tonnetz
Sign in to savethumb|right|500px|A modern rendering of the Tonnetz. The A minor Triad (music)|triad is in dark blue, and the C major triad is in dark red. Interpreted as a torus, the Tonnetz has 12 nodes (pitches) and 24 triangles (triads).
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History through 1900
- Twentieth-century reinterpretation
- Similarities to other graphical systems
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|500px|A modern rendering of the Tonnetz. The A minor Triad (music)|triad is in dark blue, and the C major triad is in dark red. Interpreted as a torus, the Tonnetz has 12 nodes (pitches) and 24 triangles (triads).
In musical tuning and harmony, the '''''' (German for 'tone net') is a conceptual lattice diagram representing tonal space first described by Leonhard Euler in 1739. Various visual representations of the Tonnetz can be used to show traditional harmonic relationships in European classical music.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tonnetz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.