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Originally Posted by Jamie Whitmarsh
I think that's what he's saying. Notes on paper isn't music any more than lines on paper is a building. Blueprints don't do shit unless someone actually builds your buildings. I could design the most elaborate, amazing building (also elaborately impractical) on paper, but that doesn't mean I'm a good architect.
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In fact, it does... An architect doesn't build the buildings he designs. He juts designs/draws them, and gives them to someone else who will overview the builders while creating this building. So, a composer would give the score to a conductor who would overview the players play it.
So you may be a bloody good composer, even if your music doesn't get performed. What if you have a score in front of you, and no music? Is it a piece of music? Or if a recording of it has been made somewhere, sometime, by some people (but to which you have absolutely no access to) makes it suddenly music? What if you die and you still haven't listened to a recording of that piece, and someone else had - can you claim by the end of your life that that piece of paper that the particular composer wrote is not music because you haven't heard a performance of it? :S