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“The first, clearer, type suggests the musical pattern of theme and variations. The chosen theme persists through the six stages, in various aspects. The second type is more difficult to analyze. A recurrent leitmotiv is lacking here; instead six differerent…

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“The first, clearer, type suggests the musical pattern of theme and variations. The chosen theme persists through the six stages, in various aspects. The second type is more difficult to analyze. A recurrent leitmotiv is lacking here; instead six differerent stages whose connection is usually an inner one are joined together in mosaic fashion. But on both types, the so-called…

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“There are many indications that the hexagrams were the original images from which the trigrams were then later abstracted and that the configurations of…

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“(T)he essential thing is to keep in mind all the strata that go to make up the book. Archaic wisdom from the dawn of…

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