Classical Music ≠ Notated Music or Composed Music
This follows up on the "Classical Music ≠ Concert Music" thread since we now have mature concert music traditions globally that use notation regularly in their Indigenous or hybridized composition traditions.
This follows up on the "Classical Music ≠ Concert Music" thread since we now have mature concert music traditions globally that use notation regularly in their Indigenous or hybridized composition traditions.
https://twitter.com/Silpayamanant/status/1472528572174815237
What counts as notation is also highly variable and different notations have different universal AND a context-dependent aspects per Bhagwati's <Notational Perspective>.
https://x.com/Silpayamanant/status/1313364568333258753
Not to mention that Ekphonetic notations are probably the most common forms of music notations and can be found worldwide in all the major world religions.
https://x.com/Silpayamanant/status/1467456658423132160
That some music ecosystems work better with cipher notations is also a consideration.
https://x.com/Silpayamanant/status/1461750997609594882
Notation is a necessity when you have large groups of instruments playing the same parts and nearly all of these global orch. traditions use it to train players to play in unison with each other, much like Ephonetic notations for large groups of singers.
https://x.com/Silpayamanant/status/1327007676925169664
Having a healthy understanding of global composition traditions and history would probably eliminate any equivocation of notated/composed music with classical music. Or maybe not.
https://x.com/Silpayamanant/status/1443175681391828992
Not to mention, going back to the tendency to refer to classical music as European music, how that makes it easy to exclude oral classical music traditions, many of which exist outside of Europe.
https://x.com/Silpayamanant/status/1471919062297030657
Also, classical music ecosystems in colonized countries, especially where Indigenous peoples and slaves were forced to play it, was almost invariably oral traditions.
https://x.com/Silpayamanant/status/1316081543455141890
Really, having a healthy knowledge of global music traditions would probably go a long way towards alleviating bad takes on music in general.
https://x.com/Silpayamanant/status/1472630823467765765
Case in point. Centuries of oral traditions in classical music globally can't combat the equivocation of classical music with notated music if those histories are intentionally excluded. 
And it's kind of mind-boggling to think that for centuries, all around the world classical music was taught by ear, by force, to slaves and Indigenous peoples.
Back to the OT topic, we also should account for non-notated traditions or forms in more recent strands of classical music, especially those which invest a lot in improvisation. Soundpainting and Soundpainting ensembles come to mind here.
silpayamanant.wordpress.com/new-music-ense…
silpayamanant.wordpress.com/new-music-ense…
Might be helpful to see the long history and variety of music notations globally.
https://x.com/Silpayamanant/status/1474411570692521986
My Bibliography of Slave Orchestras, Choirs, Bands, and Ensembles in the Journal of Music History Pedagogy (JMHP) Special Issue: Global Music History Course Design: A Pedagogical Toolbox with Syllabi.
https://x.com/Silpayamanant/status/1806410558767300821
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