scotties22 wrote:N.Burnsworth wrote:Yes Jeremiah, my mistake. You are absolutely right, I did not mention that art is also a product of the creators own emotion, and is one of, if not the most important element. You are also right about interpretation. A cover band is just a cover band, and reproducing the composition through their own interpretation.
With this we are right back to the original artist/forger debate. Does the cover band, playing the song just as the original artist, not elicit the same emotions in the listener?
But, I think Jeremiah was speaking more to the "writer" of the music being the true "artist" and not the one performing it. With this, I do not agree. It takes just as much of an artist to create (write) the music as it does someone to play it. Albeit a bit different skillset they are both "artists".
Again I'm going off of the notion that art starts with the originator of an idea. A musician is not an artist in that he has first to put the idea into his head before he can perform it. The idea is not original to the performer. The performer has certain liberties within the composition which can be artful, but not as much in the creative sense as in the interpretive. (I feel I can say this since I've been trained to play piano classically since I was 5.) There are differences, of course in pop and jazz, where the interpretation is more of the art than the composition itself.
As to the cover band playing the original song, I would say it's not the same. At least not exactly the same. Every performer has their own nuances that they infuse into the piece. Those nuances don't make it better or worse necessarily, or even in a different category. They're just different. (Like different hues of a color).
There is a reason I have 5 different recordings of Handel's Messiah at home, each with their own nuances. And there's also a huge difference between one of those recordings and hearing a live performance. You won't hear a difference from copy of a recording to copy of the same recording, but you hear a massive difference from concert hall to concert hall.
And, as you say, that lands us right back at the artist/forger debate.