[silence] Petr Kotik's Umbilical Cord

[Glenn Freeman]

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb074/is_2003_Jan-Feb/ai_n28990068

"Only when a tradition is interrupted and vanishes from consciousness,  
do we discover how imperfect and incomplete the note record is. The  
most important thing, the quality that makes a score into a work of  
music, is not something we shall actually find in any note record." -  
Petr Kotik

In regard to Cage's Number Pieces (and perhaps due the fact I have no  
Umbilical Cord) I would radically revise Kotik's statement as follows:

When the music never vanishes from consciousness, we discover how  
perfect the note record is. The most important thing, the quality that  
makes a score into a work of music, is what we actually find in the  
note record.

 From the perspective of a listener, my interest lies in how music  
changes with the times and generations while the music itself (what  
Kotik terms the 'note record') can remains the same. The really great  
music can endure such changes, becoming the 'classical music' of the  
future and thus free of the limitations of tradition.

Other views?

Glenn Freeman
OgreOgress productions
http://ogreogress.com