November 30, 2006

Theory Review: Row Forms

The Beatles--John (Prime), Paul (Retrograde), George (Inversion), Ringo (Retrograde Inversion)

4 comments:

  1. But what about the M operation? Is that the fifth Beatle? I suppose rotation could be Peter Best...

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  2. The amazing thing is that George and Ringo are hexachordally combinatorial. Who knew?

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  3. Excellent observations, all. It strikes me that there's a joke to be made about The Clash being an all-interval tetrachord, but I'll leave that for another day.

    (BTW, for the record, Ringo is my favorite Beatle.)

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