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58.97Compare our two song laboratories
“Mack the Knife”
Best lesson:
escalation.
Repeated chorus becomes bigger.
“The Bare Necessities”
Best lesson:
playful transformation.
The same tune can become many personalities.
One develops vertically through intensity.
The other develops laterally through character.
Of course, both can do both.
But they naturally teach different arranging instincts.