Meaning

The swapping of positions within a sequence; transposition or permutation..

Definitions by Sense

1. The swapping of positions within a sequence; transposition or permutation.
2. (music) A composition technique in which a sequence of elements composed of notes or rhythms is repeated in permuted orders.
3. (law) The process of changing a subsidiary title, such as that of a tenant, to one that is independently held.
4. (rare, obsolete) Embezzlement.

Example Sentences

Interversion of the order between wife, concubine and slave girl was always to be feared, and appropriate provisions appeared in the T'ang code and its successors.

Thanks to the conservatism of local toponymy, the first five rivers (Khvāstrā, Hvaspā, Fradathā, Khvarenahvaitī, Ushtavaitī) are safely identified as northeastern and northern tributaries of the lake, enumerated in anticlockwise order (merely with interversion of the last two).

We find ourselves once more in the presence of the phenomenon shath, the interversion of personalities occurring in the course of mystical union. God concedes His part to the ecstatic soul which becomes His mouthpiece; the latter can do no other than speak in the first person, or rather it is God speaking, as it were, by his mouth.

Reti's explanation that interversion is sometimes responsible for thematic unity, while without academic precedent, is based upon an acute perception of musical structure.

Repeated permutation according to this reading order, which Messiaen explores in full in "Île de Feu," results in ten different interversions (as the last column in the table shows, the tenth interversion restores the chromatic pitches in their order from 1 to 12).

But the two are not just related. They are the same! Inversion, retrogradation, retrograe, inversion, augmentation, diminution, partition, interversion, exclusion, inclusion, and textural change -- these composing operations are the very ones described by Holywelkin's equations!

There is a clear distinction between the type of interversion utilised in the 'Experimental period' (1949–51) and the compositions of the early 1960s.

Interversion is effected by a conveyance from the owner of land to his tenant, who thereafter will hold in virtue of the extrinsic cause contemplated by the rule, and also when the land comes to the tenant by descent.

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