At 10:11 PM +0100 11/17/02, Mr. Liudas Motekaitis wrote:
I said:>So it would seem that, in the order of perfection of informationaltransfer,>we would have to say that the least perfect is notation, then memory, and >then recording.And Christopher replied:Assuming, it would seem, that perfection is the goal, rather than an interesting and distinctive rendition. I think there you lost my support, at least in general terms for all music.Instead of memory, I should have said "live performance", since all folk music only ever existed during a live performance. And in general it has been argued that all music only exists to be played/listened to. The notes on the page are only a carrier, a time machine of sorts.
OK, I'm with you again. I like to use the term "recipe" for the composer's instructions. It's an analogy in which everyone can understand the relationship between the composer, performer, and listener.
Question is, do we not, as humans, enjoy this very "fuzziness" of music notation? Its very inability to give us 100% of the content is what we praise when we say that Beethoven was a genius. Beethoven gave us things to interpret, meat to digest. What if he only left us with a bunch of his own home-ripped audio-CD's?
Good point! We are forced to play it ourselves, or to listen to others interpreting it, and in doing so, make the music "ours" rather than Beethoven's. Great art of any kind (IMHO) requires the beholder to bring something of himself to the beholding, making the beholder put some work into it. No spoon-feeding allowed!
> Summed up in themusician's mind, it's a comparison between "what does the creator of this work want to happen?", "what do I as a performer want to happen?", and "what does the audience want to happen?"Now this is one of the most beautiful all-encompassing statements I have heard about music genres in a long time! Beautiful! And summed up in the audience's mind:"What did the composer mean when he had this guy do this?" , "What is this guy doing?", and "Don't ask questions, just keep moving your head!"
Ha ha! Very good! Christopher _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
