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Draft:A Theory of Compositionality in Music

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The process of musical creation is a unique experience. The effort to talk about it and reflect on it — that is, to understand how it produces meaning, and thus, to produce meaning about what it produces — is often a challenge. Its existence crosses and uncrosses propositional discourse in various ways, often leading to a kind of exercise in perplexity.

The word Compositionality is used to refer to an internal reason that constitutes compositional acts; in other words, the creation of stipulated worlds of meaning from the interpenetration between theory and practice. This process of becoming composition intertwines a number of other instances besides the inseparability of theory and practice: the invention of worlds, criticality (as the ability to interpret the world from the standpoint of the work newly created), reciprocity (the construction of identities and sense of belonging) and the field of choices.