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Thus the musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.

— Iannis Xenakis

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"The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry."

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