Editing Twelve-tone technique (section)

==== Elisions, Chains, and Cycles ====
Serial rows can be connected through elision, a term that describes 'the overlapping of two rows that occur in succession, so that one or more notes at the juncture are shared (are played only once to serve both rows)'.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Kathryn |title=The twelve-note music of Anton Webern: old forms in a new language |date=2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-39088-0 |edition=Digitally printed 1st pbk. version |series=Music in the twentieth century |location=Cambridge [England] New York |pages=449}}</ref> When this elision incorporates two or more notes it creates a row chain;<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Moseley |first=Brian |date=2019-09-01 |title=Transformation Chains, Associative Areas, and a Principle of Form for Anton Webern's Twelve-tone Music |url=https://academic.oup.com/mts/article/41/2/218/5514243 |journal=Music Theory Spectrum |language=en |volume=41 |issue=2 |pages=218–243 |doi=10.1093/mts/mtz010 |issn=0195-6167|url-access=subscription }}</ref> when multiple rows are connected by the same elision (typically identified as the same in set-class terms) this creates a row chain cycle, which therefore provides a technique for organising groups of rows.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Moseley |first=Brian |date=2018 |title=Cycles in Webern's Late Music |url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-music-theory/article/62/2/165/136725/Cycles-in-Weberns-Late-Music |journal=Journal of Music Theory |language=en |volume=62 |issue=2 |pages=165–204 |doi=10.1215/00222909-7127658 |s2cid=171497028 |issn=0022-2909|url-access=subscription }}</ref>