Re: Toccata in Dmin

When something sounds good to me, I know that it does so because there
is ambiguity (the potential for surprise) in virtually everything. You
don't know where, exactly, the various voices are going to until they
have gone there.
If there weren't ambiguity, no new combinatory sounds could ever be
created. Ambiguity extends not only to the final destination, but the
route. A good melody's very nature IS surprise, which delights. That's
the very thing that makes music "good" -- it's ability to suggest one
thing, perhaps, but deliver something even better.

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