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... musical message to remain entirely intelligible to a listener of capacity Hmax , the se- mantic plus esthetic information in this interval must be lower than Hmax . This creates a certain compensatory alternation , a dialectical ...
... musical message to remain entirely intelligible to a listener of capacity Hmax , the se- mantic plus esthetic information in this interval must be lower than Hmax . This creates a certain compensatory alternation , a dialectical ...
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... musical . Other multiple messages come in just one channel used in different ways . Among them we shall emphasize the temporal arts ; for ex- ample , radio opera and recitative are the superposition of a spoken or poetic message on a ...
... musical . Other multiple messages come in just one channel used in different ways . Among them we shall emphasize the temporal arts ; for ex- ample , radio opera and recitative are the superposition of a spoken or poetic message on a ...
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Abraham A. Moles. clearest example of this message physics . The musical message must be approached in its immediate materiality , not through the arti- ficial operating scheme of the score , which interests essentially only the ...
Abraham A. Moles. clearest example of this message physics . The musical message must be approached in its immediate materiality , not through the arti- ficial operating scheme of the score , which interests essentially only the ...
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