quoted 32 lines so do you see a distinction between composer and musician???
> >so do you see a distinction between composer and musician???
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> >composer creates the music, musician performs it? isn't that right???
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> Not exactly. Remember that "composer" and "musician" are, in many ways,
> entirely historical categories. In eras/cultures where music circulated
> entirely collectively, there would be no composer. Additionally, before
> written notation, there would have been no split between composer and
> "musician" or "performer."
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> What we're seeing now - what has been in play since the development of
> audio recording technology - is another shift in the relationship between
> these terms. This is complicated exponentially with the advent of
> multitracking (dub, tape splicing, the multitrack studio and now software
> editing), because the introduction of non-real-time techniques opens up a
> new temporal dimension in the equation.
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> Do you know that even accomplished classical musicians rely upon
> overdubbing in making recordings? So the non-real-time element intrudes
> even here.
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> I'm not trying to bash you, just to explain that the categories aren't as
> clear cut as you'd like them to be. How you take this is up to you - it
> can be the cause of profound anxiety and dismay, or a potentially
> fascinating new aspect of aesthetics and culture.
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