"I loved your piece. Can I get a copy of it?" "Can you email me your poem?"I am of two minds about allowing my work to float around on pieces of paper or in cyberspace
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You tube? I think having copies for historical documentation is a good idea. Your stuff is better performed, and I love that you memorize it instead of big-book it.
You coudl You Tube yoru stories. LIke once a month... I dunno. I think the poem you did for us will rock when it is read out loud.
Youtube ... I would have never in a million years have thought of that one. :)
I know dancers who video tape solos and then post them to Youtube to get feedback from friends. I've never done it because hate watching myself on tape. I totally get when actors and actresses say they can't watch their own movies because they nitpick their performances in a way that other people don't.
Were his poems written to be read by the reader or out loud? Actually, did he inted for them even to be read by lots of people or just the person(s) for whom he wrote them?
His plays are, for me at leas, a great exmple of reading it yourself vs seeing it performed. I used to find some of his plays a little boring when I read them on my own; but seeing them performed or even reading them outloud with other people takes it to the next level.
His intent (which we'll really never know), isn't relevant to the question you asked: >> Assuming publishing one's work is worth doing, >> when should it be done? Can you still perform it >> live afterward, or is that just overload of that piece?
The point, and I think, the answer to your question, is that his work stands up exceedingly well in either performance or written form. Which way is "better" is entirely in the eyes (or ears :) of the beholder.
I think you can definitely still perform it live - if anything reading it having never heard it performed would make people more likely to want to hear it performed.
I think both oral and written traditions are valid when it comes to the work of bards old and new. For many a long year, all we had was the oral tradition, which passed down our stories and tales, carefully from one generation to the next. A great deal of that oral tradition was lost with the invention of the printing press and more widespread education, but still it exists today. We still go to see live plays performed; we still read aloud to children. There is value in both traditions. Without the oral, we wouldn't have the magic of hearing the drama. Without the written, many stories might be lost to future generations. I see a world with plenty of room for both ... says she who is about to partake of The Bard's best (Stratford style)! :)
I like being able to preserve poems and stories for the record, but also because sometimes the original authors aren't around to tell them. At Autocrat's this year, I took a great deal of pleasure in digging out and reciting Aelfwyn's poem about the tornado at that event 15 years ago. I'm not sure anyone there but me even remembered it had been written. More recently, I found a moving story by Aeden o Kincorra, the first Baron of Septentria (he was my baron when I joined). I had forgotten about it myself, even though I have it saved electronically someplace because I enjoyed it so much when I first heard it, and saved it when it was published some years later. It seems like an appropriate tale for Hare, so I have printed out a copy and am working to memorize it to tell. Aeden hasn't been active in many years, and this tale tells some of our Kingdom's ancient history in such a beautiful way it brings me nearly to tears when I hear or read it. If he were around and willing to tell it, I would love to hear him do so. Since he is not, I
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There is ownership, but I'm not really worried about copyright. In fact, publishing things in The Tidings or Cry of the Wolf or something would probably help someone prove copyright. It would be far easier to pass off something that was never published
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You have hit exactly on why I like to have the works published. I think it is wonderful when someone else stands up and basically says "I want to tell X's story or sing X's song because I think it is so beautiful/entertaining/important". That, for me, is a large part of the ownership. I'm not worried about copyright, but renown is pretty darned cool.
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You coudl You Tube yoru stories. LIke once a month... I dunno. I think the poem you did for us will rock when it is read out loud.
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I know dancers who video tape solos and then post them to Youtube to get feedback from friends. I've never done it because hate watching myself on tape. I totally get when actors and actresses say they can't watch their own movies because they nitpick their performances in a way that other people don't.
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His plays are, for me at leas, a great exmple of reading it yourself vs seeing it performed. I used to find some of his plays a little boring when I read them on my own; but seeing them performed or even reading them outloud with other people takes it to the next level.
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>> Assuming publishing one's work is worth doing,
>> when should it be done? Can you still perform it
>> live afterward, or is that just overload of that piece?
The point, and I think, the answer to your question, is that his work stands up exceedingly well in either performance or written form. Which way is "better" is entirely in the eyes (or ears :) of the beholder.
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I think you can definitely still perform it live - if anything reading it having never heard it performed would make people more likely to want to hear it performed.
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