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<h3>Feel free to change my music</h3>
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<time datetime='Wed, 7 Dec 2022 22:00:00 CST'>7 Dec. 2022, 10:00 PM</time>
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<p>I don’t see why anyone’s composition should be above question if it leads to more authentic music-making.</p>
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<h3>My relationship with <i>Illinois</i></h3>
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<time datetime='Tue, 6 Dec 2022 21:30:00 CST'>6 Dec. 2022, 9:30 PM</time>
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<p>The album provides emotional continuity across the nearly 15 years it’s been in my life.</p>
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<h3>Extensive vs. intensive expression</h3>
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<time datetime='Mon, 5 Dec 2022 21:30:00 CST'>5 Dec. 2022, 9:30 PM</time>
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<p>What you can choose vs. what the music wants</p>
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<h3>I want to be a budding naturalist</h3>
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<p>Trying to learn the names of local plants, animals, fungi, and rocks</p>
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<time datetime='Wed, 7 Dec 2022 22:00:00 CST'>7 Dec. 2022, 10:00 PM</time>
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I write music for other people to perform, particularly choral music.
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This has lead me to spend a lot of time thinking about the peculiar social arrangement of making music with a separate composer, performer, and audience.
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My impression of the relationship between composer and performer is that we often give the composer too much authority over music-making events they are not actively a part of.
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The history of classical music is often presented as a canon of great composers, whose works are sacred expressions of their singular souls.
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I don’t strictly disagree with this framing: individuals have written some incredible music, and great music is always an expression of its author.
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But this narrative can foster an attitude which elevates the composer’s artistic expression above all else.
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This supports a model of performance in which the performer’s responsibility is to convey the intent of a greater artist as purely as possible.
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The performer in this case is like a speaker reproducing the composer’s intention, and their quality is measured primarily in the effectiveness of the reproduction.
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Personally, I think the composer’s part in the process is done once they commit the music to the page (ignoring cases where the composer is also a performer of the music).
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A composition is not music in itself: it is an abstraction, whereas the performance is where the music becomes concrete.
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When performing, the performer actively chooses to play or sing whatever notes they do.
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If they are playing music written by someone else, ideally it should be because they can make that music their own authentic expression in that moment.
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If they cannot, if they think something different would be better, then they should choose to do that instead.
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I sometimes describe what I do as a composer as “writing plans for what I think people should do when they get together to sing.”
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This more accurately describes how I think about the role of a composer: their role is to present possibilities to performers, and then leave it up to them.
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Because of this, I am generally alright with alterations being made to existing music.
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At the very least, I judge a change on its own merits, rather than opposing it on the grounds of respect for the composer’s intentions.
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Clearly, someone like Beethoven made a lot of good choices when writing his music, so it will be hard to change it and get better results.
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At the same time, I don’t see why anyone’s composition should be above question if it leads to more authentic music-making.
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Do you think performers should be free to make changes to the music they perform?
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Do you think this is a fair framing of the act of composition?
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Do you have other ideas about the relationship between composer, performer, and audience?
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Let me know your thoughts at my Ctrl-C email: <code><my username>@<domain name></code>.
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