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Because we've just reached the crucial point you remember I spoke of the mind having to go through a series of decision making steps when confronted by a semantic incongruity first seeking justification and then either rejecting it or accepting on a poetic level well add to that a whole other series of steps these very ones we’ve been describing namely the finding of an X factor to which A and B can both relate my dog is your dog because they’re both brown but that can’t be says the mind but I see it can be in a poetic sense that’s the process now all of that complex mental process takes place in a millisecond a flash of time such is the wonder of our cerebral computer but the moment we come to deal with musical metaphor even that millisecond is eliminated because we don’t have to deal with the problems of A and B being incompatible and why not because the A’s and B’s of music are not burden by literal semantic weight like my dog or your dog or Juliet if this is A and this is B we instantly perceive the musical transformation with no time or effort needed to explain that relationship in terms of semantic meaning the only time required is the time it takes to play it in fact when you think of the number of transformations taking place in the space of those few bars of

You see but in addition to that B is a metaphor of A through the comparative transformation of A which is transformed by lowering it one degree of the scale

A dominant and the B progression is dominant tonic a beautiful parallelism and a shining case of this is that

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from PX4M0012: Down and Owt in Falkirk and Blackpool, released November 25, 2022

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PLASTIC PEOPLE PRODUCE PLASTIC MUSIC

DIGITAL + TAPE LABEL DOCUMENTING SOUNDS PRODUCED IN CENTRAL BELT OF SCOTLAND ESP. EDINBURGH

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