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This document discusses innovation and choice in the history of music. It argues that while composers continually devise novel musical ideas, only those ideas that are replicated by other composers become part of the historical development of music. Mere invention or single uses of novel ideas do not shape history. The key factor is whether an innovation spreads and is taken up by a compositional community. Understanding which novelties are replicated and why helps explain how musical styles evolve over tim

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sgg1897

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