At 4/2/2006 10:34 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: > >On Apr 2, 2006, at 8:37 AM, Phil Daley wrote: > >> At 4/1/2006 08:44 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: >> >> >But the requirement Phil is placing on these pieces is completely >> >arbitrary and if applied honestly would eliminate a lot of the works >> >he considers to be music. >> >> I agree that improvisation is not notatable. >> >> But, if an entire piece is improvisation, it is not music, it is >> performance art. >> > >Well, that's just plain wrong. > >What kind of extremely narrow definition of music do you have that >excludes improvisation from music? Or non-pitched elements? Or >difficult-to-notate elements? Or >inconsistently-reproducible-in-performance elements?
Compare it to literature. Is there a great piece of literature that hasn't been written down? How about art? Is the an art masterpiece that is not on canvas? Phil Daley < AutoDesk > http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
