transformational theory

     

Transformational theory is a branch of music theory eveloped by David Lewin in the 1980s, and formally introduced in his most influential work, Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations (1987). Musical transformations, which are operations defined on a mathematical group that represents potential musical events, can be used to analyze both tonal and atonal music. The resulting analyses are compelling visually and metaphorically because they show through the use of arrows how one musical event is transformed into another as an audible process in a piece of music.

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