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Definitely. There are some youtube video showing the score of the music played along. Sometimes you can definitely notice divergences: the video editor took s
by informatimago 8y ago
Definitely. There are some youtube video showing the score of the music played along. Sometimes you can definitely notice divergences: the video editor took some random score of the same piece, and not the score used by the musicians!
Actually, there are software (not excellent AFAICS), and humans who just transcribe the played music into new scores. This may be easier to do that to take the original scores and modernize them, but then of course, this would be derived work of the played music...
- mirimir 8y agoI had always assumed that some version/edition of "foo" by "bar" (from the author, I mean) is always the same series of notes, with the same timing, played in the same way, etc. Or at least ideally. I knew that instruments differ. And that performers have different styles. And that there are parts of pieces that basically say "improvise here". And that performers occasionally make mistakes, or even consistently make some particular mistakes. But it never occurred to me that there are variously derived versions. I mean, how can it be referred to as "foo" by "bar", when it's actually a distinct version. Indeed, distinct enough that it can be copyrighted. At that point, isn't it really "baz" by Sony (based on "foo" by "bar")?
- holri 8y agoA score is a very rough and incomplete model of the composition a classical composer had in his mind. As Mahler said, the essential things of music are not in the score. Timing, articulation, phrasing, dynamics can make a piece sound totally different. The words alone are not the performed poem.
- mirimir 8y agoThat's very poetic :) But it complicates copyright enforcement.