Iskender Savasir:

>Did I miss out on it or did noone really came up with the (to me) obvious
>relevance of Borges's stroy Pierre Menard,, The Author of Don Quixotte to
>this thread?

Yes, this example is very relevant.  I've never understood why the
imitation of a previous model --as an artwork in itself-- is perfectly
legitimated in literature but not in music.  Some people reads "Pierre
Menard" just as a magnificent literary joke, but others have built an
entire poetic of literary reception after it.  Even better: read Borges'
"Universal History of Infamy" after reading Marcel Schwob's "Vies
Imaginaires" and tell me about pastiche.  A composer doing the musical
equivalent of this would be executed by the critics...

Pablo Massa
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