>>10814250Also, about that way around.
Each classical musical work is essentially a set of instructions depicting various notes and whatever, as per composer's will, the performer is supposed to do with them. Volume, tempo, that sort of thing.
The notes themselves are discreet and not a subject to any freedom of interpretation. The instruction, however, allow, by and large, for a certain margin of error, a leeway, each specific to a certain type of instruction. In other words, any single instruction has a small individual freedom of leeway window connected to it, in which it still counts as being "correctly enough performed". All those windows of opportunity combined, provide hard boundaries between which you are free to self-express however you goddamn fucking please AS LONG AS you stay within those bounds of playing "correctly enough" and zealously following the LETTER of the musical text, not its ALLEGED '"spirit'" (as you are tried to be tricked to do). So, strictly within those boundaries, those windows of leeway, while following the letter of the musical text well enough, you express whatever you personally happen to feel while you perform. With you formal adherence to the letter of the musical work being your shield against "uuuhhh mozart is supposed to be performed differently i think uuugh my feels are better and mire sophisyicated then ur feels drool fart i am totally a better expert except i didnt spend fuckload hundreds of hours actually learning to play durrr".
