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90.119The deeper compositional lesson
Motivic development should not be pitch-centric.
A musical idea has multiple dimensions:
- rhythm
- contour
- interval
- articulation
- register
- harmony
You can change five and preserve one.
If that one is distinctive enough:
identity may survive.