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Simon G, on 27 November 2010 - 06:41 PM, said:

[And this i really do disagree with Patrick over, great ballet is of course inextricably linked to the music, all the masterpieces of course have scores but they are intrinsically, intellectually and emotionally complete without music

That makes little or no sense to me, if they're 'inextricably linked', then they're not 'complete without it'  (unless they don't have one or don't need one, or another one 'will do' or 'we heard it with the score and now we can just see it by itself').  

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- their purpose is not to be a physical representation of a score and nothing else.

Of course they're not.

[Simon G]

papeetepatrick, on 27 November 2010 - 08:28 PM, said:

Simon G, on 27 November 2010 - 06:41 PM, said:

[And this i really do disagree with Patrick over, great ballet is of course inextricably linked to the music, all the masterpieces of course have scores but they are intrinsically, intellectually and emotionally complete without music

That makes little or no sense to me, if they're 'inextricably linked', then they're not 'complete without it'  (unless they don't have one or don't need one, or another one 'will do' or 'we heard it with the score and now we can just see it by itself').  

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- their purpose is not to be a physical representation of a score and nothing else.

Of course they're not.

Sorry, my bad I meant intrinsically not inextricably.

[innopac]

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