At 11:18 AM -0400 4/15/05, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Are you saying you make a distinction between composing music and "writing" music?
Semantics, nothing more. Some people, at some times, do use them interchangeably, yes, but probably shouldn't. "Writing down," as you say in your next sentence, clarifies the matter. Handel "composed" Messiah; he wrote it down in someething like 2 weeks. Mozart "composed" the C Minor Mass, but never quite finished writing it down.
A composition doesn't have to be written down -- or even be capable of being rendered in any kind of notation at all -- for it to be a great piece.
True, but until January 1, 1978, it did have to exist in written form (under U.S. law) to qualify for copyright protection.
John
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