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79.103Apply it to “Mack the Knife”
For repeated choruses:
Chorus 1: almost skeletal two-beat.
Chorus 2: walking bass + sparse RH.
Chorus 3: colored shells.
Final: selective blocks.
Do not make every later chorus denser on every beat.
Alternate:
fullness
with space.
The theatrical escalation becomes much more effective.