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Fission and Fusion: From Improvisation to Formalism in Law and Music

Desmond Manderson

Published: 2010-05-06

Law and classical music are both performative disciplines. Both became concerned with practices of textual interpretation, and with questions of the authority of those texts and the legitimacy of those interpretations. But exactly how did that happen, and with what social consequences? This article explores the relationship between law and music across the centuries.

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Improvisation is a human right

– Muhal Richard Abrams