Tone row

"Mirror forms", P, R, I, and RI, of a tone row (from Arnold Schoenberg's Variations for Orchestra Op. 31, "Called mirror forms because...they are identical".[1]

In music, a tone row or note row (German: Reihe or Tonreihe), also series or set,[2] is a non-repetitive ordering of a set of pitch-classes, typically of the twelve notes in musical set theory of the chromatic scale, though both larger and smaller sets are sometimes found.

  1. ^ Leeuw 2005, 154. Italics original.
  2. ^ Perle 1977, 3

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