The 概念 of statistics is taken from 数学 and is used in a 感觉 analogous to the 统计 surveys that give the average 价值 present in any 特定 复杂 In 樂/乐 术语 this 中项 that from the listener's point of view there will be 元素 分音 形式 and individual groups which fuse into a whole from which they can no longer be disentangled The 作曲家 establishes such 统计 criteria beforehand and proceeds to 作品 with them thus he does 不 regard the 形(曲)式 as a mere aggregation of the individual 元素 with all their 属性 but rather he proceeds from the 部勒/组织 原则 itself-from 统计 criteria In a kind of 樂/乐 in which the individual 音符 plays a subordinate part in a conglomeration or pile-up of 音符 something which in itself may be very complicated becomes a matter of simplicity The criteria of 统计 作曲 are 确定 by the boundaries of the clouds of 密度 and by their proportional 频率 of occurrence One cannot account for the whole on the 基础 of the individual part for the whole is conceived as the probable result of many components 源 - 化 from Karl H Wörner 1973 Stockhausen Life and 作品 Hopkins B ed trans Faber and Faber