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Music theory

a serial method that maps pitch-class numbers onto attack points within a measure, so rhythm obeys the same row operations as pitch.

In music theory, time-point system refers to a serial method that maps pitch-class numbers onto attack points within a measure, so rhythm obeys the same row operations as pitch. This meaning comes from Babbitt (1962) in Perspectives of New Music.[1]

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attack4 fields · 10 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs measure2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs pitch3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Babbitt, M. (1962). Twelve-Tone Rhythmic Structure and the Electronic Medium. Perspectives of New Music, 1(1), 49. https://doi.org/10.2307/832179

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