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In music, a tone row or note row (Template:Lang-de or Template:Lang), also series or set, is a non-repetitive ordering of a set of pitch-classes, typically of the twelve notes in musical set theory of the chromatic scale, though both larger and smaller sets are sometimes found.


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A literary parallel of the tone row is found in Georges Perec's poems which use each of a particular set of letters only once.Template:Citation needed

"Tone row" may also be used to describe other musical collections or scales, such as in Arabic music.Template:Citation needed




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