Music is an art of motion. Like dance. It is always moving and relies on its motion for expression. You will never hear music that is not moving. It is a temporal art form that uses time and the perception of time.
Arts of motion (music and dance and theatre) are different from stationary art like painting or sculpture. A painting does not move. It is created and then it exists, unmoving.
Arts of motion are inseparable from their performances. A piece of music in indistinguishable from the singer or orchestra who plays it. Each performance and interpretation is unique, even when performing the same piece of music.
To relate this idea of performance to painting - it would be like watching Da Vinci paint the Mona Lisa every night. Or watching different painters paint the Mona Lisa. Every occasion would be different, the beauty in the process and performance as well as the actual painting itself.
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