Parameter (music)

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In music, a parameter is an element which may be manipulated (composed), separately from the other elements.

The first person to apply the term parameter to music may have been Joseph Schillinger, though its relative popularity may be due to Werner Meyer-Eppler.[1]

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  1. ^ Grant, M. J. (2005). Serial Music, Serial Aesthetics: Compositional Theory in Post-War Europe, p.62n85. ISBN 9780521619929.