If you appropriate the music you shouldn't call it his. And I agree to the extent that it was never his to begin with, standing on the shoulder of giants etc.

If you appropriate the music you shouldn't call it his. And I agree to the extent that it was never his to begin with, standing on the shoulder of giants etc. > It's not mutually exclusive. Some would think it is. Death of the Author is a modern perspective. And again I agree, because concrete music is not as ephemeral as history, if that's the right word. I mean, history is unreliable, vague, abstracted, imaginary, indirect, something like that.