At 6:29 AM -0400 4/3/06, Phil Daley wrote:
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?
Invalid comparison. Literature and painting are creative arts. Once completed, they are what they are. Music (and dance and theater) are both creative and recreative arts. It is in the recreation that each such work of art is different, by a little or by a lot, every time it is recreated. Notation is not performance.
But yes, an enormous amount of great literature, including various epics and the entire Old Testament, was passed down as stories from memory for centuries before being written down. The writing down is not the creation of literature, merely its preservation in one artificial form. Notation is not performance.
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