Derived Row

Derived Row

The term "partition" is also French for the sheet music of a transcription.

In music using the twelve-tone technique, derivation is the construction of a row through segments. A derived row is a tone row whose entirety of twelve tones is constructed from a segment or portion of the whole, the generator. Anton Webern often used derived rows in his pieces. A partition is a segment created from a set through partitioning.

Read more about Derived Row:  Derivation, Partition and Mosaic

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