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This chapter sketches the compositional process between paradigmatic selection and syntagmatic combination within the musical sign system. Apart from these semiotic perspectives, the process is characterized by a “dialectic” interrelation of local and global criteria. These features—well known from the general structure theory of global compositions—reappear in the special light of poiesis: The construction of a composition resembles the step-by-step completion of a puzzle of logical units, distributed in syntagmatic time, and selected to optimize association to already placed units. This activity is remunerative and fed back by a successive accumulation of poetical semantics.
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Mazzola, G. (2017). Local and Global Strategies in Composition. In: The Topos of Music II: Performance. Computational Music Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64444-8_18
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