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Cycle and Motion

Posted on August 22, 2015August 28, 2015by Barnaby Brown

In place of the word variation, I use the word cycle in order to drop unhelpful cultural baggage generally attached to the idea of variation. I’d define a pibroch cycle as the fundamental unit of memorisation - the essential idea or framework from which the rest of the piece is generated. It is usually laid out in the […]

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