9V wrote:a pen is not music, but score sheet is music, because music is the language. You can EDIT music with the pen, or with an instrument (which are musical TOOLS). You cannot do that with audio signals. So midi is music, the score is music, the sound made with music (the so-called "music") is not music (unless played IN REAL TIME).
Nova aka 9V, I think your problem is not being a native english speaker.
In literature, "The Story" isn't the paper+words printed on a sheet of paper or a document file with it. The story is the idea waiting to be transmitted to others, no matter the medium.
In music, you can's call a sheet of paper with notes "The Music" nor the MIDI file. The music is the idea waiting to become into something people can listen to.
A blue-print of a house... isn't "The House" it represents. ...idea waiting to turn into a physical object.
A source-code file of an application, isn't "The Application". ...idea waiting to be complied and turned into executable code.
A a sheet of paper with a cake recipe doesn't make that sheet of paper "The Cake". ...idea waiting to be made into a physical (and hopefully eatable) object.
All of the above examples show that the representations of a work aren't really "The Work".
Being able to edit the plans of the work, doesn't prove that those plans are The Work.
So, if you want to call a MIDI file "music" you may as well call a house blue-print "a house" or a book "the story" , the source-code file "the application" or a recipe "the cake".
But... doing that, you can't possibly deny others to call the resulting translation of the notes on a sheet of paper or a MIDI file, "music", like you can't deny that others may want to call "a story" whatever manifestations of started out as a book but may end as a song, movie or game all done around and withing "The Story".
Same thing with calling "a house" the physical manifestation of that initial blue-print, or calling a cake the result of following the rules printed on the recipe.
Can you "edit" the cake? Not to the sugar, eggs and flour level, but there are some degree of editint youcan make Does that turn it into something other than a cake because you can only go deep in editing in the recipe ? Nope. It'll still be a cake until someone eats it.
Can you "edit" a house ? Yup, you kinda can
...just like you can edit audio (and the cake).
You won't be able to "edit" the sand and cement in it, but you can change it, just like you can with audio. You may not change every little aspect of an audio file, but you can do some edits.
Being able to edit more or less something doesn't make it more or less a manifestation of something... in this case, music.
So, if you want to call "music" to the plans of it (MIDI file/Sheet of paper) you can... but you can't stop others to also call "music" to the manifestation of those plans.
...also, notes are simply a collection of audio snippets played at a specific frequency, and... MIDI may really be just a draft (because it lacks the "audio context" it'll trigger, unlike MOD Trackers=Notes+Samples, btw), just a rough idea of what's going to end up as being the final representation of that... music.
Maybe in italian (you're italian right?) the word "music" is not the same as "a song" and that's the all issue right there, I'm guessing.
(sorry, had to say something here too
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MIDI and music are related, that is why midi is still a musical language and midi tracks can be converted to score. AUDIO tracks are not music, are "sound". Only human brain perceive them as "music", but it isn't actually.