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When you perform an inversion of the melody you are performing the melody
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"When you perform an inversion of the melody you are performing the melody upside‑down."
More precisely: melodic inversion flips every interval so that upward intervals become the same-size downward intervals (and vice versa), usually around a chosen axis or starting pitch. For example, if the original melody goes up a major third then down a perfect fourth, the inversion goes down a major third then up a perfect fourth. This is different from retrograde (playing the melody backwards); retrograde inversion does both (reverse the order and flip the intervals).
More precisely: melodic inversion flips every interval so that upward intervals become the same-size downward intervals (and vice versa), usually around a chosen axis or starting pitch. For example, if the original melody goes up a major third then down a perfect fourth, the inversion goes down a major third then up a perfect fourth. This is different from retrograde (playing the melody backwards); retrograde inversion does both (reverse the order and flip the intervals).
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