Sir Mustapha
Group: Musicians
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Posted: May 25 2012, 19:43 |
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Quote (Ugo @ May 25 2012, 17:46) | @ Holger: I didn't remember the credit given to the choir - the text in the booklet for TSODE is hard to read (especially the original one). Anyway, does this mean that, theoretically speaking, I could take a folk song from Abruzzo (a traditional song, i.e. no writer), have a local choir sing it, then take a sample from it and put it on an album of mine which is otherwise made up exclusively of my own compositions, and pass it off as a track by Ugo Coppola? Very honestly, this sounds a bit strange to me. |
Well, it's strange, but you're basically correct. In fact, artists have been doing that for centuries, in fact, in many mediums; Tarantino's films do it all the time, many modern plays recontextualise old texts, and the examples in music are plentiful. You just gotta think that music is much more than the notes or sounds you're hearing: the intention, the implicit meanings, the context, the purpose, and many things like that are part of a musical piece. So, by taking someone else's "notes" and turning them into something else, you are, in fact, making them "your own". Strange, but true.
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