12  Complete Evaluations and Understanding Observations

The evaluations of artistic elements from previous chapters will be drawn together and compared here. Observations will be made from examining those evaluations and comparing the artistic elements to the musical materials.

Our evaluations have primarily been on three different levels of perspective: (1) the characteristics of an individual sound, (2) the relationships of individual sound sources, and (3) the overall musical texture, or overall program.

The highest level of perspective brings the listener to focus on the composite sound of a recording, or its overall texture. At this level, all sounds are summed into a single impression. Much recreational listening occurs at this level of ...

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