286 - Music and Pattern (Royal Northern College of Music Q&A)
The Symbolic World
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The Role of Patterns in Music
I think that for music, it's harder to talk about, because music seems to be much more abstract in terms of the relations between the, the, the things that it posits. And so the patterns are almost, in some ways they're more, they're more immediate because they're almost pure. They're just basically, so you have experiences of, of relationships between sounds. That's what you're experiencing. So there has to be a beginning, there has to been an end, and then there must be some kind of movement. You can tease someone with music by not resolving the pattern. And then finally, giving your resolution, which is different from the one you expected.
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