Author Question: What is the difference between indeterminacy of composition and indeterminacy of performance? ... (Read 13 times)

Yi-Chen · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

What is the difference between indeterminacy of composition and indeterminacy of performance?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What happens to the musical character of the different parts when imitation is applied to all the voices?

A) the parts become similar, if not equal, in melodic content and rhythmic activity
B) the parts become stratified in their individual characteristics
C) the emphasis shifts from the middle voice to the outer voices
D) the upper voices become more important than the lower voices

debra928 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

choice of musical materials not controlled by the composer; performers share with the composer in making decisions about what and how to play

Answer to Question 2

A