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101.163The deeper arranging lesson

An arrangement's identity does not necessarily live in:

exact voicings.

It may live in:

  • escalation pattern
  • bass behavior
  • motif recurrence
  • transition logic
  • climax strategy
  • ending behavior

These are higher-level invariants.