Grade 8 Music Theory, Unit 8, Lesson 9 of 9
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Note rows

Music theory, 20th-century techniques, 12 minutes

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All twelve notes in a fixed order, and the row's forms: retrograde, inversion and retrograde inversion.

A row and its forms

A row: all twelve notes, each once

A note row uses all twelve notes, each once, in a fixed order. Its retrograde plays it backwards; its inversion turns every interval upside down; its retrograde inversion does both.

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  • 4 exam-style questions, marked as you go, each with a worked solution
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