In music theory, an inversion is a rearrangement of the top-to-bottom elements in an interval, a chord, a melody, or a group of contrapuntal lines of music...

Houston, Texas Inversion (music), a term with various meanings in music theory and musical set theory Inversions (novel) by Iain M. Banks Inversion (video game)...

chord), while a first-inversion seventh chord is a 6 5 chord. According to The American History and Encyclopedia of Music: Inversions are not restricted...

position Inversion (music) First inversion Second inversion Fourth inversion Hubbard, William Lines (1908). The American History and Encyclopedia of Music, Vol...

major chord (higher inversions) In music theory, inversions higher than the third require extended chords; the fourth inversion requires a ninth chord...

second inversion of a chord is the voicing of a triad, seventh chord, or ninth chord in which the fifth of the chord is the bass note. In this inversion, the...

G–B–D–F); V6 5 is its first inversion (B–D–F–G); V4 3 its second inversion (D–F–G–B); and V4 2 or V2 its third inversion (F–G–B–D).: 79–80  In the United...

in the traditional sense, similar to a strict canon or to a canon by inversion, where an original theme or design is presented, and is then followed...

and can be related by musical operations such as transposition, melodic inversion, and complementation. Some theorists apply the methods of musical set...

as the root; or as an inversion of the same: second (inversion of a seventh), fourth (inversion of a fifth), sixth (inversion of a third), etc., (intervals...