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^ Inversion
The figure mirrored around the axis: what went up goes down. The axis is degree 1 unless axis says otherwise.
- Degrees mirror by scale steps, so the result stays in the key. Literal notes mirror by semitones.
- A chord mirrors its root and swaps major and minor.
- Two
^cancel. Drums do not change. - Transforms combine in any order:
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A rising figure and its mirror.
c4 d4 e4 g4 c4 b3 a3 f3
Degrees stay in the key; literal notes mirror exactly.
a3 g3 f3 g#3 g3 f3
Chords swap major and minor.
c4 e4 g4 c4 d#4 g4 d4 f4 a4 b3 d#4 f#4
The retrograde inversion, in either order.
c4 d4 e4 g4 f3 a3 b3 c4
Two mirrors cancel.
c4 d4 e4 c4 d4 e4