Steven Schwartz ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Leighton Gill responds to me:

>>Secondly, a "composition" fails to be music if it cannot be ruined by a
>>musician's failure to carry out the composer's instructions.  If a musician
>>were to do a shoddy job of playing a Stockhausen work, how on Earth would
>>anyone know?
>
>The same way you'd know from listening to a Beethoven piece:
>
>1.  By knowing the score
>2.  By having heard the work several times before
>3.  By knowing the general style

Exactly.  And, because Leighton still hasn't adequately addressed my point,
I'll say *once again* that this is how I could recognise Zeitmasse after 30
years.

Deryk Barker
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