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- scribe entire systems of significations, such as the design of a musical instru- ment, a choreography, or a language or text. We recognize the same sense in a spoken word and a written text, or we perceive the same meaning in the analo- gous structures between written music, the design of a musical instrument, and a pattern of bodily movement: “The character of the melody, the graphic configu- ration of the musical text and the unfolding of the gestures participate in a single structure, have in common a single nucleus of signification.”11 Symbolic behav- ior is