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  2. Symmetric scale - Wikipedia

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    In music, a music scale can have certain symmetries, namely translational symmetry and inversional or mirror symmetry. The most prominent examples are scales which equally divides the octave . [ 1 ] The concept and term appears to have been introduced by Joseph Schillinger [ 1 ] and further developed by Nicolas Slonimsky as part of his famous ...

  3. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  4. Symmetry - Wikipedia

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    Symmetry is also an important consideration in the formation of scales and chords, traditional or tonal music being made up of non-symmetrical groups of pitches, such as the diatonic scale or the major chord.

  5. Mode of limited transposition - Wikipedia

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    Modes of limited transposition are musical modes or scales that fulfill specific criteria relating to their symmetry and the repetition of their interval groups. These scales may be transposed to all twelve notes of the chromatic scale, but at least two of these transpositions must result in the same pitch classes, thus their transpositions are "limited".

  6. Symmetric group - Wikipedia

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    In this case the alternating group agrees with the symmetric group, rather than being an index 2 subgroup, and the sign map is trivial. In the case of S 0, its only member is the empty function. S 2 This group consists of exactly two elements: the identity and the permutation swapping the two points. It is a cyclic group and is thus abelian.

  7. Tone row - Wikipedia

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    "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 ...

  8. Wicki–Hayden note layout - Wikipedia

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    Major Thirds (3–3–3–3): four symmetrical groups of notes a major third apart (3 notes per group) (Note that the whole tone scale (6–6) color scheme by itself is not very practical for the Wicki–Hayden layout since this pattern is already the basis for the physical layout of the keys—each row is a whole tone scale.

  9. Trichord - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, a trichord (/ t r aɪ k ɔːr d /) is a group of three different pitch classes found within a larger group. [2] A trichord is a contiguous three-note set from a musical scale [3] or a twelve-tone row. In musical set theory there are twelve trichords given inversional equivalency, and, without inversional equivalency, nineteen ...