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In music, a transformation consists of any operation or process that a composer, performer, or analyst may apply to a musical variable (usually a set or tone row in twelve tone music, also a chord progression in tonal music). Transformations include multiplication, rotation, permutation (i.e. transposition, inversion, and retrograde), and combinations thereof.

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