Metamusic

rupert's highly informative post has led me to propose another possibility: that music and metamusic are reframings not only of a more fundamental category but also of each other. For example, Monteverdi's introduction in "Tancredi e Clorinda" of consecutive quarter notes of the same pitch was initially rejected by the musicians hired to play it. To their minds it was like music, but not music. Eventually they were able to reframe music in light of their exposure to a metamusical innovation. Monteverdi, of course, had composed "Tancredi e Clorinda" while reframing music and metamusic simultaneously!

I also am exhilarated by Dr. LaPaunche's breakthrough in the field of song. I am familiar with his earlier work on the reframing of song and poetry and see this as a tremendously fertile development of it. I propose naming the fundamental category he discusses in his honour – as Aunche.