Of course it's not exactly the same thing, but it's not entirely
different, either, and it is very close to exactly what has been
happening in electronic music since the 40's. The recordings that were
made in the Renaissance were way too scratchy to be subjected to
sampling and the belt-driven turntables that were powered by rodents
were way too inconsistent in their motor speed.
music (at) sterlingmp(dot)org wrote:
Alex Lubet wrote:
Sampling was the fundamental compositional technique of Renaissance
polyphony, only they called it cantus firmus in those days.
Well, my impression -- Alex is undoubtedly more knowledgeable in these
matters -- is that cantus firmus involved the appropriation of a *melody* --
which is, indeed, a staple of much folk music, much Jewish music, much
popular music, and some (or much?) "classical" music -- not the
appropriation of produced/arranged/"recorded" (well, obviously not exactly)
music from another source (or "someone else's pre-existing musical effort" --
at least in its totality -- in Ms. Jill's words). That's not the same thing, surely?
-- Robert Cohen
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