Definition & Meaning | English word COMBINATORIALITY

Definitions of COMBINATORIALITY

1. (music) A quality shared by some twelve-tone tone rows by which the row and one of its transformations combine to form a pair of aggregates.

Examples of Using COMBINATORIALITY in a Sentence

• There he became interested in the music of the composers of the Second Viennese School and wrote articles on twelve-tone music, including the first description of combinatoriality and a serial "time-point" technique.
• In music using the twelve tone technique, combinatoriality is a quality shared by twelve-tone tone rows whereby each section of a row and a proportionate number of its transformations combine to form aggregates (all twelve tones).
• Donald Martino had produced tables of hexachords, tetrachords, trichords, and pentachords for combinatoriality in his article, "The Source Set and its Aggregate Formations" (1961).

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