Macan's list of aesthetic qualities, formal procedures, and stylistic

traits linking the two styles could well have been generated by examin-

ing a single quintessential work of progressive rock, King Crimson's

fifth studio album, Larks' Tongues in Aspic (LTA).4 This study, however,

is centrally concerned with stylistic links at once more esoteric and yet

more fundamental than those Macan cites; links that, moreover, run

deeper even than the structural parallels Covach finds in "Close to the

Edge." This is not to say that the concrete structural parallels linking

LTA to the art music tradition are not interesting in their own right.