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| Question | Answer |
| Prime row | The musical material on which a piece of serial music is based, normally consisting of the 12 notes of the cromatic scale in order set by the composer |
| Inversion | A method of developing a series by turning all the intervals upside down as to create a mirror image of the original series |
| Retrograde inversion | A method of developing a series by reversing the order in which the pitches of the inverted series are heard |
| Retrograde | A method of developing a series by reversing the order in which the pitches are heard |
| Enharmonic | Different ways of 'spelling' the same pitch. for example Bb and A# |
| Verticalisation | two or more adjacent members of a note-row |
| Dissonance | A harsh, disagreeable combination of sounds; discord |
| Canon | A composition or passage in which a melody is imitated by one or more voices at fixed intervals of pitch and time. |
| Chromaticism | the use of chromatic tones or a style in which chromatic tones predominate |
| Klangfarbenmelodie | Literally 'tone colour meloody' a word used to describe how timbre contributes to melody addition to pitch and rhytm |
| Hexachord | A group of six notes selected from the 12 available pitches that are used as a musical motif |
| atonal | Absence of tonality (key) |
| Principal Voice | The main melodic line |
| Secondary Voice | The next most importance melodic line after the principal voice |
| Serialism | A compositional technique |
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