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102.74Arrangement and composition form a continuum
At one end:
faithful voicing change.
Then:
reharmonization.
Then:
groove transformation.
Then:
melodic paraphrase.
Then:
new melody over same skeleton.
Eventually:
new composition.
There is no single hard boundary.