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Beethoven Thesaurus
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(1) In music, the conscious, consistent use of patterns and formal arrangements to engender in an audience a sense of aesthetic satisfaction or psychological plausibility that clarifies or heightens the intended effect of a composition or performance (New Harvard Dictionary of Music) ; (2) an examination of the ways a piece of music imitates figures of speech, syntax, and oratory
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