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                                              Revised: April, 2000

                                
       You can classify segues             
       in different ways.     
                         
       Let's try 
       Sound vs. meaning and 
       Matched vs. contrasted:				       
       			    	       
       
               matched                contrasted 
                                                                    	 
                                                                         
sound          The seamless,          The abrupt change,                 
               invisible              the sudden jump to                 
               transition.            another style of                   
                                      music.                             
                                                                         
       
meaning        A collection           The contadiction,                  
               of pieces that         the alternate                      
               say the same           view... the moving                 
               kind of things.        beyond?                            
                                                                          
                                                                         
                                                                         
The "sound vs. meaning" distinction makes 
some intuitive sense to me, though I find 
some of the pickier, more philosophically 
inclined folks tend to regard it as 
confusing or shallow.  
		       
                                                                               
By "sound" I mean       
the connotative         
meaning -- almost       
always expressed        
in the instrumental         There's a cliche that 
part of the music.          music is about the 
                	    expression of emotion, 
             		    and words are about 
                 	    the expression of ideas. 
By "meaning", 		          
I mean the                     That's the thought 
denotative                     I have in mind. 
meaning --                     	                   
almost always                  	          (Sorry if it 
expressed in                   	          feels wrong.)
the lyrics.                       
                               
         Though sometimes      
         instrumental pieces   
         have a concrete       
         intended meaning to   
         them -- sometimes     
         hinted at by the      
         title.                
                               
         (This is convienient 
         for database junkies  
         such as myself.)      
                               

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