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The Dynamic Overtone Structure of the Tone

While the unfoldment of overtones is governed by the inner logic of the composition, the individual overtones perform their own movements in space, and the music gains a highly spatial quality.

On the level of sound, this dynamic structure of overtones achieves that lively creative
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reality which is able to unlock in us listeners
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our own world of fantasy.
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The Potential of Structural Diversity of the Tone

A tone
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is as much and as little an expression of wholeness as is a tree. Just as a tree is composed of roots, trunk, branches, twigs, and leaves, and just as each of these again have their own structure and their own life, a tone also consists of a multi-layered system of overtones, arranged in a manner very similar to that of the components of a tree.