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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.