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The Concept of Space in Music

The Sound-Space

Hardly a word is used with so many meanings on so many different levels as the word “space.” People’s fantasy has given this word manifold meaning from a simple “room” to the universe, and the musical sound-space,
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too, is just one of the many “spaces” in man’s imagination.

Variation of the Mental Space of Imagination

The awareness of space arises from the relative awareness of differences –
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from duality to diversity, or separateness – the distance between two or more things.

On the level of sensory experience the feeling of space requires an affirmation of separateness through sensory perception.
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In this process a dynamic change of the spatial world must take place in time; indeed, our relative awareness of space actually originates and grows only with a change of the mental space of our imagination.
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