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.
References
^Castine, Peter (1994). Set Theory Objects: Abstractions for Computer-Aided Analysis and Composition of Serial and Atonal Music, p.33.
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