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80.107Connection to arranging
You now have another independent form parameter:
Harmonic specificity
You can shape a piece:
ambiguous
→ increasingly defined
→ fully functional
→ ambiguous again.
This is just as real a formal trajectory as:
quiet→loud
or:
thin→dense.