Umberto Eco: “We are in the time, as an athlete,
we need to step backward to prepare the jump forward…”
“…memory is the soul, to project us to the future we need a soul.”

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Aaron Copland: “As a composer, I should like to think that any one of my works is capable of being read in several ways. Otherwise a work might be said to lack richness of meaning.

But each different reading must in itself be convincing,

musically and psychologically”

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Lydia Goehr: “The fact that musicians did not own their music,
and the fact that music was functional, meant that one musician could make use of any other´s music”

Gerald Abraham: “Not only in Middle Ages”, he writes, “but for centuries after them, the concept of a single correct method of performance did not exist.”

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Bailey Derek: “When, at the end of Middle Ages, the Occident attempted to notate musical discourse, it was actually only a sort of shorthand to guide an accomplished performer, who was otherwise a musician of oral and traditional training. These graphic signs were sufficiently precise to help him find his place, by mishap, he had a slip of memory (..)

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