who wrote the “piano concerto of siam”? or authorship
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Who wrote the “Piano Concerto of Siam”? or Authorship, Authority, and the Library Catalog
Stephen Luttmann Mountain-Plains Music Library Association
16 May 2015 Edmonton, AB
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l’Auteur: Qu’est-ce-que c’est?* (*cribbed largely from the Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism, 1995)
• a (possibly fictitious) originator of a text possessing no rights to that text as property or integral utterance
• a “conduit for divine (or perhaps demonic) inspiration” • a member of “a distinct professional group” with “certain
rights to their intellectual property” • (following Roland Barthes:) “an ideological construct that
allows us to codify a text as univocal and originating or emanating from a singular, unified source.” • modernist-structuralist construct, yielding the modern practice of
textual criticism . . . even in the absence of authorial intentionality • the “death of the author” = the rejection of the author as “the entity
that fixes all meaning”
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Author(ity) and Music • In music: text/meaning established by composer?
listener? performer? • Beethoven vs. Rossini • Madonna!
• Susan McClary (Feminine Endings): “I will be writing of Madonna in a way that assigns considerable credit and responsibility to her as a creator of texts.”
• Jonathan P.J. Stock (Current Musicology, 1998): “It is only in standard musicological writing that Madonna would need justification as an original composer at all. A conventional ethnomusicological approach . . . would tend to read her first and foremost as a ‘performer.’”
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Two kinds of non-original utterance • Arrangement (Music). A musical work, or a portion
thereof, rewritten for a medium of performance different from that for which the work was originally intended; a simplified version of a work for the same medium of performance. See also Adaptation (Music).
• Adaptation (Music). A musical work that represents a
distinct alteration of another work (e.g., a free transcription); a work that is merely based on other music (e.g., variations on a theme). See also Arrangement (Music.)
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Adaptation vs. Adaptation
“Der Müller und der Bach” • 4 extra bars between strophes 2-3 • extra 30 bars at end (=strophe 3 repeated with new figuration)
“Liebeslied (Widmung)” • 2 extra bars of introductory vamp • repetition of strophe 1 with added figuration, followed by 4 extra
bars of introductory vamp figure • 1 bar of extra figuration between strophes 2-3 • 1 extra bar of figuration (7 bars instead of 6) at end
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Author/Creator vs. Performer
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Music cataloging will always be a challenge. It’s the nature of the catalog to impose order and predictability; it’s the nature of art to challenge order and be unpredictable. --arp