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collectionally en · ADV

Etymology

From collectional + -ly.

Meanings

1. Pertaining to collections (sets of pitch classes)
   • Moreover, any available sixth within each such collection (and collectionally distinct patch or passage) may link with any other. 1997, Elaine Barkin, E: An Anthology : Music Texts & Graphics (1975-1995), page 36:
   • In this way, the problem posed by incomplete or deformed versions of the ideal shape earlier in the piece is solved, by means of one of the techniques that originally contributed to the deformity in the first place (i.e., giving order positions 1,2 and 3,4 of the nexachord as verticals in rows that are collectionally invariant according to the pattern given in section b of Example 4.5). 2014, Jack Boss, Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music: Symmetry and the Musical Idea, page 242:
   • Was Carter in fact thinking collectionally at all in the works of his early period. 2012, Marguerite Boland, John Link, Elliott Carter Studies, page 22:

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