Mark uses the idea of quotations to explain the necessity of assertions in performances. Quotations, …show more content…
To elaborate the performance of a particular piece of music is not the art of the original piece itself, instead it is its own separate art, Mark claims that, " A work of music is the sort of thing that can have indefinitely many instances, each of which counts as a presentation of the work" (299). Though a performance is an individual work of art in itself, the performance allows for a gateway to reach the original composition of the score. Each time the piece is played it becomes a new work regardless of similarity as a singular performance cannot be repeated. A performance of Mozart’s Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, is just that – a performance – not the actual work composed and notated by Mozart. It is a performance independent to the particular time that the instrumentalist brings the instrument up to his or her lips until the song is completed. There exists a distinct difference between Mozart’s work and a performance of Mozart’s work, and therefore two separate works exist. This is because the performance is merely a quotation of the original work, with the assertion of what the performer believes the piece should be, Mozart as the composer is not present during this performance: “A work of music may be designed to call attention to the other work of art which is its performance. Some works are composed so as to