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Page 287
... traditional society , they increasingly take on the character of marginal , even leisure - time , activities . They no longer embody that crucial legitimating power that religious activities have in all nonindustrial societies . The ...
... traditional society , they increasingly take on the character of marginal , even leisure - time , activities . They no longer embody that crucial legitimating power that religious activities have in all nonindustrial societies . The ...
Page 528
... traditional relationship , whereby harmony has become the surface - or at least the final result of melody . Harmony in musical form . The chief problem of com- position , in any style from ancient times to the present , is the creation ...
... traditional relationship , whereby harmony has become the surface - or at least the final result of melody . Harmony in musical form . The chief problem of com- position , in any style from ancient times to the present , is the creation ...
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... traditional orchestral timbres , which the player selected by setting an array of tablet - shaped switches along the front of the instrument . Also during this postwar period , electronic organs became one of the largest segments of the ...
... traditional orchestral timbres , which the player selected by setting an array of tablet - shaped switches along the front of the instrument . Also during this postwar period , electronic organs became one of the largest segments of the ...
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