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wx12Ton is a software that will display the 48 forms of a twelve-note series and tests series for tonal phrases.

Further, wx12Ton allows the user to list the complete set of all twelve-note series which satisfy certain criteria.

At the beginning of the last century twelve-note composition was a celebrated new technique to compose music without tonal sounds. wx12Ton now helps to compose and analyse such music.

In particular it displays the 48 forms of a twelve-note series (which is a lengthy task if you do it by hand) and tests the series for some particular features such as tonal phrases or whether all intervals occur in the series.

A twelve-note series exactly consists of all twelve different notes within an octave (c, c sharp,..., b flat, b) and thus there are about half a billion possible series. However, since every series has 48 forms, not all of them are considered to be independent.

If one further imposes some constraints the se...