Combinatorial Features as Cues and Means of Music Innovation,

The features of completeness, exhaustiveness and equality in repetition in music are de ned and discussed, focusing on how and why they can occur and be used as cues and means of innovation. Their occurrence in the scores of di erent com- posers is then studied, with examples from the music and techniques of Ludwig van Beethoven, Arnold Schoenberg, Josef Mathhias Hauer, Fritz Heinrich Klein, Milton Babbi , Arvo Pärt, Paul Glass, Tom Johnson and of the author.