Small point on Bob Draper's intriguing reply to the brave Charles Dalmas: >Doesn't rhythm imply repetition and isn't such a thing absent from much 20c >music? Not at all. This confuses rhythm with metre. >>Someone said that a note is not music, merely a component, and that person >>is right on the money, since the concept of a note is abstract; however, if >>you PLAY a note, it becomes music, since you are giving that note its place >>in time and space (you play a certain number of cycles per second, and you >>play it for a certain amount of time). Also, if you have a "collection of >>notes", they will not be music unless they are in their proper space and >>time. > >Sorry to be pedantic again, but according to this a composer does not >write music. It only becomes music when it is performed. Can this be >right? I have a question: Are architectural plans a house? Steve Schwartz