Partition (music)
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In music using the twelve tone technique a partition is a method of creating segments from sets, most often through registral difference. The opposite of derivation used in derived rows.
More generally, in musical set theory partitioning is the division of the domain of pitch class sets into types, such as transpositional type, see equivalence class and cardinality.
Partition is also an old name for types of compositions in several parts; there is no fixed meaning, and in several cases the term was reportedly interchanged with various other terms.
[edit] See also
- Segmentation (music)
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