When writing progressions, how do we avoid the jerkiness that often results from playing every chord with its root note at the bottom of the stack? Inversion therapy, that’s how! Here, we’ll show you ...

Retrograde inversion—an evocatively named counterpoint device that sits at the crossroads between linear melodic manipulation and spatial transformation—offers composers a surprisingly economical yet ...

In the realm of tonal music, an inversion is a method of transforming a melodic line by flipping every interval’s direction while preserving its overall shape. Think of a melody as a path drawn on ...