On Jun 24, 2006, at 6:02 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 4:12 PM -0400 6/24/06, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 02:14 PM 6/24/06 -0400, John Howell wrote:
And let's not forget that the development of non-traditional
notations in the 20th century was driven by one and only one
non-musical requirement: music could not be copyrighted unless it
could be represented on paper. Since it WAS necessary, composers
developed those notations,
just my own logical inference, based on no research whatsoever.
Item: U.S. copyright law of 1909 only covered music rendered on
paper. (I don't know whether the law in other countries was similar.)
Radical changes in music notation did not occur until nearly half a
century later. Furthermore, the "paper only" requirement goes back to
the earliest US music copyright law--1840s I believe--yet this
triggered no explosion of new notations for over a century.
Item: 20th century composers developed new notations--on
paper--without which their work could not have been covered by
copyright.
The first published edition of _4'33" _ used traditional notation--and
was copyrighted. A subsequent edition *using Cage's original, analog
notation* was also copyrighted. The vast majority of classical music
was then, and is now, created on paper for transmission to performers
who realize the work according to these written instructions. The vast
majority of novel notations in the later 20th century were created by
and for classical musicians.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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