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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.

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Which of the following statements is most likely be a continuation of the passage?

  • A The search for broad similarities thus begins by understanding and distinguishing these two facts.
  • B The search for musical-visual analogies thus depends on the complexity of the works being compared.
  • C The search for music and art of the highest quality thus depends on very different assumptions
  • D Thus music and painting exist in mutually exclusive worlds
  • E Thus music and painting are too complicated to be evaluated in terms of analogies.

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