by David James
It is a truism to say that music consists, in the first instance, of notes, or pitches, and sounds. This might seem a bit like saying that water is wet, or that Joe Biden gets a little confused from time to time. Yet when the two are considered separately, some interesting features emerge that reveal why musical genres have different rationales.
In classical music there is, to a large extent, not much difference between notes and sounds. Because the music is composed beforeh…
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