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Thief
Any music that follows rules of a musical scale is limited by the ability to use a small number of notes. The 7 note diatonic scale is the foundation of the European musical tradition.
No artist denies the existence of, and relation between, musical genres. In addition, all forms of music can be said to include patterns. Algorithms(or, at the very least, formal sets of rules) have been used to compose music for centuries; the procedures used to plot voice-leading in Western counterpoint, for example, can often be reduced to algorithmic determinacy.
For these reasons, accidental or ‘unconscious’ plagiarism is possible. As well, some artists abandon the stigma of plagiarism altogether. Shostakovich perhaps commented sarcastically on the issue of musical plagiarism with his use of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas,” an instantly recognizable tune, in his Prelude No. 15 in D Flat, Op. 87
According to the U.S. copyright law, in the absence of a confession, musicians who accuse others of stealing their work must prove “access” — the alleged plagiarizer must have heard the song — and “similarity” — the songs must share unique musical components, ]though it is difficult to come to a definition of what is “similarity”.
Even if a piece of music is in the public domain and thus not protected by copyright, it may still be plagiarism to copy a portion (or all) of it without attribution. There are many changes in the creation, content, dissemination and consumption of popular music in the 21st Century
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I have used bar of music from an older work in this piece…..if you guess correctly you may possibly retain the copyright of this work.
Thief was commissioned with a financial subsidy from The Scottish Arts Council and is dedicated to Ruth Morley.
Instrumentation
flute and piano
First Performance
Ruth Morley (flute) Scott Mitchell (piano)
Guinness Room RSAMD October 2009