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Harmonic Serialism again (1) “Gen takes the input in and derives from it the candidate set cand-set0 which is submitted to Eval. The most harmonic member of cand-set0, as determined by Eval, is out1. It is not necessarily the “ultimate output”, however; it is returned to Gen for further processing as a new input. This process continues, looping back and forth, until there is convergence: the output of pass n is identical to the output of pass n − 1. The output of pass n is the ultimate output ” (McCarthy, 2000). A. HS with unrestricted Ge