What is the purpose of creating a matrix of all 48 versions of the tone row?

What will be an ideal response?


The tone row itself is only one version of the pattern. Using it alone is like writing a tonal
composition that does not modulate. The matrix provides all of the other versions of the
row: transposition, inversion, retrograde, and retrograde inversion.

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