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50.53Level 32 — gradually transform style within one performance

Do not stop between styles.

Start:

rubato.

Establish pulse.

Become swing.

Then half-time/funk.

Then return rubato.

Same melodic phrase repeats throughout.

The listener experiences the arrangement evolving around it.