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Technique in music involves the totality of all aspects of music. Content & technique are identical, since the only things valuable in a composition are those that achieve realization, & nonidentical, since the force of a piece of art results from a dynamic tension between its interior & exterior. Today the act of musical reproduction is an integral part of the act of composition. However, if art becomes its own reproduction, then reproductions may become art, & this tension will be reduced. Several theoretical deductions related to praxis are proposed: (1) consideration of the relationship between result & expenditure, (2) control of the extent to which construction extends to the phenomena, (3) live performance as the test of the relation between construction & phenomena, (4) the mastery of profusion, (5) functional instrumentation as a parameter of composition, & (6) the illusion of complete predetermination in composition. M. Migalski.