The pitch classes of a key, with its spelling and form deliberately dropped.
Named so that dropping them is something a reader can see. A layer that
reduces a key silently is where an Ab minor becomes a G# minor, and the only
way to keep finding those is to make the reduction say its own name.
The pitch classes of a key, with its spelling and form deliberately dropped.
Named so that dropping them is something a reader can see. A layer that reduces a key silently is where an Ab minor becomes a G# minor, and the only way to keep finding those is to make the reduction say its own name.