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PRONUNCIATION OF TONE ROW

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TONE ROW

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Tone row is a noun.
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WHAT DOES TONE ROW MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tone row

In music, a tone row or note row, also series and set, refers to a non-repetitive ordering of a set of pitch-classes, typically of the twelve notes in musical set theory of the chromatic scale, though both larger and smaller sets are sometimes found.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TONE ROW

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tone series
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WORDS THAT END LIKE TONE ROW

arrow
back row
borrow
corn row
crow
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front row
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morrow
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Synonyms and antonyms of tone row in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «tone row» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TONE ROW

Find out the translation of tone row to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tone row from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tone row» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

音列
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fila tono
570 millions of speakers

English

tone row
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्वर पंक्ति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الصف نغمة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тон строка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

linha de tom
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্বন সারি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ton rang
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Baris nada
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tonreihe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

音列
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

톤 행
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nada baris
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hàng giai điệu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தொனி வரிசையில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टोन पंक्ती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Renk sırası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fila tono
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ton wiersz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тон рядок
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rând ton
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σειρά τόνου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

toon ry
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tonen v
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tone rad
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tone row

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TONE ROW»

The term «tone row» is used very little and occupies the 152.316 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TONE ROW» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tone row

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TONE ROW»

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Ernst Krenek: The Man and His Music
according to which it would be possible to regard all music as ultimately tonal. Be that as it may, the example of modal music suggested treating a twelve-tone row as if it were a mode, but Krenek concluded that with twelve notes a row was too ...
John Lincoln Stewart, 1991
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Cengage Advantage Books: Music Listening Today
In addition, a different rhythm is associated with each three-note group, and different articulations are specified. A number of composers, including Stravinsky, were attracted to the principles of tone row and serial music and used them in some ...
Charles Hoffer, 2011
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A Theoretical Investigation of Twelve-tone Rows, Harmonic ...
A Twelve-Tone Row Class in Ginastera's Cantata para America Mdgica, op. 27 ( 1960), mvt. I (mm. 31-34/1) 151 2-2. A Twelve-Tone Row Class in Ginastera's Don Rodrigo, op. 3 1 (1963-64), act I (m. 455) 152 2-3. A Twelve-Tone Row Class in ...
Christopher Anderson Fobes, 2006
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Intervals, Scales, Tones and the Concert Pitch C
The true tones chat make up the twelfth-tone row are contained in the overtone and undertone rows that go on to infinity; however, the twelfth-tone row itself has a very different structure. The partials of the overtone and undertone rows relate to ...
A. R. Meuss, 2004
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Heinemann Advanced Music
However, with the series written down in close formation, as it is here, we can see that the tone row has been carefully constructed using a three-note step-wise motif (notes 1-3), the interval of a perfect 4th (notes 4-5 and 6-7), the interval of a  ...
Pam Hurry, Mark Phillips, Mark Richards, 2001
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Schoenberg and His World
The principles of twelve-tone music are briefly stated.33 A twelve- tone row is an ordering of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale. Schoenberg typically used a single row in composing a piece, but found ingenious ways to permute or divide ...
Walter Frisch, 1999
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The Professional Arranger Composer
Keep your orchestration clean, i. e.: 1) A percussion rhythm with a single tone- row against it, perhaps occasionally inserting a chord. A A Fast (On recording Side One) Ex. 103 2) A ground bass figure - ostinato - works well. Ex. 104 You can ...
Russell Garcia, 1979
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Schoenberg's Phantasy Op. 47: Analysis by Twelve-tone Row ...
The Phantasy Op. 47 (March 1949) was constructed, as in much of Schoenberg's mature twelve-tone works, with hexachordal combinatoriality, in which the two hexachords are inversely related.
Hyae Rhyun Yim, 2008
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Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man
All this could be deduced from his own use of the method.35 The Piano Quartet, with typical economy, employs a single tone row for all three of its movements, thus ensuring the kind of unity so characteristic of its composer; indeed, the ...
Howard Pollack, 2000
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Theory Essentials
Before composing a serial piece, the composer must first construct a tone row. The tone row must use all twelve pitches classes, but they can occur in any order. Composers choose the ordering of their tone rows very carefully to create certain  ...
Connie Mayfield, 2012

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TONE ROW»

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Young Telegraph Quartet Delights in American Quartets
2 as blending 12-tone serialism with Latin American and Chinese influences. Indeed, the composer is flexible in his use of the tone row and never shies away ... «San Francisco Classical Voice, Jun 15»
2
Picosa explores the music of Augusta Read Thomas
Composed in 1948, it represents academic serialism at its worst, constituted by semi-clever manipulations of a tone row that only appears at the work's close, ... «Chicago Classical Review, Apr 15»
3
'Data bells' make music from climate change
That tone row forms the basis of a 25-minute composition written by Osborn for nine solo string instruments and a percussionist playing the six bells suspended ... «CNET, Jun 14»
4
Musical Beauty Makes a Comeback
His disciple, French conductor and composer Pierre Boulez, took it further and applied the same principle of tone row pitch to all the elements of music—pitch, ... «The American Conservative, May 14»
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Review: Trio Cavatina performs Beethoven, Copland, Brahms
Launching the 16th annual Sunset Concerts series at St. Luke's, Trio Cavatina ... infers) with a tone row announced by the violin: an up-then-down sequence that ... «San Jose Mercury News, Feb 14»
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Leonard Bernstein's Unconventional 'Anxiety'
For Bernstein this is a moment of atonality, portrayed musically by a 12-tone row of pitches on the piano. And then comes his answer. He takes that 12-tone row ... «NPR, Sep 13»
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A Twelve-Tone Trip Down Memory Lane, Courtesy of Vi Hart
I loved writing twelve-tone serial compositions because it was fun to play with different properties of the tone rows, and it had just enough limitations to ... «Scientific American, Jul 13»

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