The solos on his landmark 1964 album "Spiritual Unity" are musical action paintings in which feeling dictates form.
More than a few times during the group's succeeding set — which featured music from "Idiosyncrasies," Marcus's rewardingly focused third album — there was a sense of melody dictating form.
In addition to advising Sondheim on the rules of composing — content dictates form — Hammerstein modelled a workaday attitude that may have influenced the younger man's dedication and his skepticism about ideas that ride in on the wings of pure inspiration.
As we saw, Kant's conception of the mind is functionalist to understand the mind, we must study what it does and can do, its functions and the doctrine that function does not dictate form is at the heart of contemporary functionalism.
But, the website problem stuck with me & key ideas slowly crystallized, like: Content should dictate form.
This entails allowing function to dictate form, having a tool chest of adaptable tools and using the right tool under the right circumstance.
Since the basic material was often a tusk or a tooth, these objects partially dictated the form, which was embellished after carving by incising or engraving.
To use unreinforced chocolate, this restriction dictated a form with minimal bending: an inverted hanging shell with voids.
Likewise, tablet usage will be dictated by form factor — so usage patterns may also shift, as tablets migrant to other locations.
