Musical Set Theory
In musical set theory inversion may be usefully thought of as the compound operation transpositional inversion, which is the same sense of inversion as in the Inverted melodies section above, with transposition carried out after inversion. Pitch inversion by an ordered pitch interval may be defined as:
which equals
First invert the pitch or pitches, x = −x, then transpose, −x + n.
Pitch class inversion by a pitch class interval may be defined as:
Inversion about a pitch axis is a compound operation much like set theory's transpositional inversion, however in pitch axis inversion the transposition may be chromatic or diatonic transposition.
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