The Emergence Machine

Texture (Music sense)

property · Music · Level 8 · E9

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Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

The overall quality of sound produced by the combination and arrangement of melodic and harmonic elements, which is a fundamental property of music, emerges from the inherent nature of matter and radiation within the spatial context, as patterns of energy and matter distinguish one entity from another, and the combination of elements, which requires time.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “texture music” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “texture music”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
texture
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

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Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Quality L1 (requires)
    The overall quality of sound produced by the combination and arrangement of melodic and harmonic elements.
  • Combination L2 (requires)
    The overall quality of sound produced by the combination and arrangement of melodic and harmonic elements.
  • Music L7 (requires)
    Understanding texture music in music requires knowledge of music as a foundational musical concept.