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A root position triad on C with first and second inversions.

In music, the mirror image of a melody used in counterpoint; alternatively a chord in which the natural order of notes is rearranged.

In classical counterpoint, melodic inversion usually includes a degree of flexibility to avoid dissonance or unwanted harmonic implications; in strict twelve-tone music the inversion is exact.



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But this would be, in reality, an inversion of the primary principle of our political association, as it would in practice transfer the care of the common defense from the federal head to the individual members: a project oppressive to some States, dangerous to all, and baneful to the Confederacy.
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