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Iannis Xenakis Quotes: The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.
         

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.


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