Permutation (music)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In music, a permutation of a set is a transformation of its prime form by applying zero or more of certain operations, specifically transposition, inversion, and retrograde. A set in music theory, as in mathematics and general parlance, is a collection of objects. In musical contexts the term is traditionally applied most often to collections of pitches or pitch-classes, but theorists have extended its use to other types of musical entities, so that one may speak of sets of durations or timbres, for example. The permutations resulting from applying the inversion or retrograde operations are categorized as the prime form's inversions and retrogrades, respectively. Likewise, applying both inversion and retrograde to a prime form produces its retrograde-inversions, which are considered a distinct type of permutation.

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