Cardinality equals variety and structure implies multiplicity, are true of all collections with Myhill's property or maximal evenness.
So here's a riddle: What do Michael McDonald, Gabriel Faure' and Proust all have in common?
If you guessed inverted diatonic scales, with a slow arc toward the final cadence -- Bingo! Just don't forget to diminish the fifth in C major, okay you guys?
And for those of you who guessed that 'relationship between gigues and compound metre' -- you also got it right!
Sorry if we lost a few of you. Just remember, in duple meter, the dotted quarter note creates the constant tension (deliliously done, when the harmonica does that jumpy staccato jabbing thing, often abused as a screechy descant above lilting blues tunes).
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It's that Proustian reference (or allusion) to the Circle of Life, with Sophia at the center, that I had in mind. Always, the still point at the musical centre . . . .
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