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Performance, atonomous music, and meaning (Music (What is it? (Musicians…

- - - - “The secret of perfection lies above all in [the performer’s] consciousness of the law imposed on him by the work he is performing”- Stravinsky, dangerous in his days to over influence the score
      - “we cannot unquestioningly accept either his metronome markings or his own recorded performance tempi as reliable guidelines.”- Erica Buxbaum
      - “The most important part of music isn’t in the score”- Mahler
      - Canons of music, e.g. Mozarts etc becomes the expression of the works
      - How far can you take the music before tis no longer the original?
    - - “The performer, for all his intolerable arrogance, is totally unnecessary except as his interpretations make the music understandable to an audience unfortunate enough not to be able to read it in print.”- Schoenberg
      - Webern writes stuff on tables- is this a finished piece? He thought so. Fuckin nut
      - When it gets more complex should more priority be given to text?