The Role of Patterning in Music
Dana Wilson · Leonardo · 1989
If the human organism can be explained, at least in part, in terms of forms and patterning, so can the means and results of human expression. Largeand small-scale patterns are the essential building blocks for a musical composition, be it improvised or slowly conceived and notated. It is through the exploration, manipulation and synthesis of patterns that great musical works are created. Thus my purpose here will be to illustrate the ways in which such patterning is essential to the construction of the music of several