I want to talk about some song segments, many of which I think are objectively special. But understanding their specialness requires focusing on stuff which music theory doesn't analyze. (I'm not trying to say that music theory is bad or ineffective at what it is doing. It just doesn't analyze the aspects of music I'm interested in. And those aspects matter only for a ridiculously small subset of musical compositions.)
Obscure gestalts in short musical loops (draft)
Obscure gestalts in short musical loops…
Obscure gestalts in short musical loops (draft)
I want to talk about some song segments, many of which I think are objectively special. But understanding their specialness requires focusing on stuff which music theory doesn't analyze. (I'm not trying to say that music theory is bad or ineffective at what it is doing. It just doesn't analyze the aspects of music I'm interested in. And those aspects matter only for a ridiculously small subset of musical compositions.)