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- noun music A quality shared by some twelve-tone tone rows by which the row and one of its
transformations combine to form a pair ofaggregates .
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Examples
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There's the old stand-bys: inversion, retrograde, combinatoriality (be the context tonal or atonal).
Archive 2008-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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There's the old stand-bys: inversion, retrograde, combinatoriality (be the context tonal or atonal).
Spark plugs and transmissions Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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I don't think that freshmen, or even undergrads, really, should be expected to be grad-level fluent in Schenkerian analysis, or set theory, or the more esoteric corners of combinatoriality — I'd be happy with just a solid grounding in history, form, and Roman numeral-style analysis — but they should definitely be aware of their existence and their applicability.
The Skills to Pay the Bills Matthew Guerrieri 2006
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