Re: Labels for memes

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 13:40:01 GMT

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    On 01/31/01 04:53, Robin Faichney said this-

    >But Mozart wrote {\em an\/} opera called The Marriage of Figaro, no matter
    >how many productions of it have subsequently taken place. Though every
    >production is probably slightly different, these are considered versions
    >of the same opera, rather than different operas, due to what they have
    >in common: the information they share. A particular performance of it
    >remains just that---a particular performance---even if it was recorded,
    >and thousands of CD's made.

    (What is {\em an\/}...?)

    There are schools of philosophy and aesthetics that quite bluntly and
    explainedly deny that a work, like Mozart's Figaro, has an original and
    separate entity from its performance.

    I just saw the Boston Premiere of a Rodrigo piece for guitar and flute.
    It was not described as the premiere of the performance, but the premiere
    of the work. There is an identity to a piece of music that remains
    uncomplete until it is performed. What does a score and its performance
    have in common...?

    - Wade

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