Phil Daley wrote:
At 4/7/2006 01:05 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
>On Apr 7, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Phil Daley wrote:
>
>> My question is, could you have notated a part for Professors Higgins,
>> such that, a performer unaware of previous performances, could have
>> replicated that part?
>>
>
>Well yes, of course: you'd write the rhythm out on a single line and
>underlay the lyrics beneath it just as if it were to be sung. Put a
>notation above the staff saying: "text to be spoken, in this rhythm."
>What's the problem?
If there are no notated pitches, it is not music.
It is performance art.
Thanks for making my point.
You just threw out the entire canon of folk music around the globe for
which there is no written tradition, thus no notated pitches.
Nice!
No notated pitches == non-music?
I'm not sure percussionists would agree with you.
I sure as heck don't!
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David H. Bailey
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