/lit/ - Literature

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>Improvisation is still accounted for by the score,
>It tells you when and for how long to improvise
Epic cope. If I sit down at my piano and improvise a fugue, what score is telling me for how long to improvise? Kek.
Notation is important in the history of music, especially for organising performances by a large number of players, but by no means is it a basis for the creation or organisation of the music. Nobody is arguing about its importance, but the original dispute was about it being the basis (only a detached academic who doesn't play an instrument would even suggest such a retarded idea).

>X is a feature of Y and important to the history of Y
>X is the basis (and organisational principle) of Y