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56.83The deeper lesson: arrangement is energy over time
You can think of a performance as a graph.
Horizontal axis:
time.
Vertical:
intensity.
A weak arrangement is often almost flat.
A good one has:
- rises
- plateaus
- drops
- surprises
- climax
- release
Harmony is only one contributor to that graph.