Music As Prophecy
Josh Rodriguez
The connection between composition and performance is part of what music is. In English the word ‘music’ can mean both the musical score and the sound product, but as states the Philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff in his Works and World of Arts book[i], “to be composed” and “to be performed” are complimentary predicaments of the ontology of music. However, even if a same piece can receive different performances, cases as du Pré connection with Elgar’s Concerto make us thinking whether could be a final performance – the consummation of the expressive potential of a piece of music.
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