This, then, was the situation until gestalt theory posed the radical question: is it at
all the case that when I hear a melody I really hear the sum of individual notes, at
least as a primary basis? Is it not perhaps the other way around, that what 1 have
taken up in me, the manner in which I perceive the single tone, is that of a part
determined by the structure of the whole? in other words, what the melody gives
me is not built up (by some added aids) secondarily out o ...