The first four names are the vocabulary the motif generator's contours are
written in, and mean the same here. 'static' is the shape a generator never
asks for and an analysis regularly meets: a line that does not move. A line
that dips and comes back — an arch upside down — reads as 'wave', since the
shared vocabulary has no name of its own for it.
A wave has to turn more than once to be heard as one, so a cell the generator
writes for 'wave' reads back as 'wave' only from three bars up; the one-
and two-bar cells turn once and read as 'arch'. The other three shapes come
back under their own name at every length.
The overall shape of a line.
The first four names are the vocabulary the motif generator's contours are written in, and mean the same here.
'static'is the shape a generator never asks for and an analysis regularly meets: a line that does not move. A line that dips and comes back — an arch upside down — reads as'wave', since the shared vocabulary has no name of its own for it.A wave has to turn more than once to be heard as one, so a cell the generator writes for
'wave'reads back as'wave'only from three bars up; the one- and two-bar cells turn once and read as'arch'. The other three shapes come back under their own name at every length.