Joseph Sowa wrote:
>The eternal question: Which came first the chicken or the egg? In music,
>first the composer writes the piece, then the performer plays it. Not the
>other way around (Unless you're transcribing cadenza's). However, without
>the composer, the performed is limited only to improvisation. The only
>style of music can't be free form.
Question to all practising musicians. Do you work out a cadenza, write it
down and then perform it or is it composed on the fly like a piece of jazz?
Bob Draper
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