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85.132The deeper lesson
Earlier we thought:
a song contains sections.
Now think:
an arrangement is a journey through states.
States can differ by:
- key
- groove
- register
- density
- motif
- harmonic specificity
- orchestration
The song's written form is merely the skeleton.