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Source: 1997
Comparing designs in music with visual designs raises interesting questions. We are familiar with the easy transfers of terms denoting qualities from one field to another. The basic problem can be put this way: can music sound the way a design looks? The elements of music are not the same as those of painting. They may be analogous, but to be analogous is not to be identical. Is it possible, then, for the same broad characteristics to emerge from different perceptual conditions? Two facts about the relation between broad characteristics of a work and their perceptual conditions must be kept distinct. First, the global characteristics of a visual or auditory complex are determined by the discernible parts and their relationships. Thus, any notable change in the parts or their relationships produces a change in some of the global characteristics. Second, a change in the parts or their relationships may leave other global characteristics unchanged. logies.
The second paragraph is primarily concerned with establishing the idea that
- A different global characteristics of a work result from the same discernible parts
- B the parts of a work of art influence the total perception of the work
- C visual and auditory characteristics can be combined
- D changes in the parts of a work remain isolated from the work as a whole
- E the visual complexes in a work of art influence the work's auditory complexes