Musicking

:) I definitely can appreciate this term. We actually talked about this in Foundations to Music Ed. I absolutely can understand what he is getting at, but at the same time i definitely understand the same point that most of us are making in our post... I do think that the composer is a vital role in "musicking" and without the composer then you have nothing to interpret as a musician. However in that instant that the music is being played i do believe that the input is coming directly from the musician so at that moment, yes it is the performer. But we also have to remember that that performer isn't always performing something that they have created. Often times it is just their interpretation of something that someone else has created. So i do believe that everyone is vital to his term... and it makes complete sense.