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Context: Middle Ages music recreation teds to be a bit more interpretative compared to Classical pieces. There is also a lot of surviving source material for classical music.
Performers of contemporary music: yeah haha i kinda made up the rhythm there, the notation is 100% exact, because the composer wrote it on a computer and listened to it a thousand times, but i ~~ignored~~ improvised it lol
Actually, it turns out more and more that classical music can be interpreted in many ways, and composers at the time were constantly improvising from a written piece with new ideas on the fly. Contemporary musicians created some kind of a cult to classical music and tried to enforce rigorous exact playing when in reality that was not the composer's intentions at all
Basically the same way we did architecture and statues.
Performing medieval music: "sure would be nice if this piece had consistent and readable notation"
Meanwhile Sergiu Celibidache: "Haha, teeeeeemmmmmmmmmmpooooooooooooo gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bbbbbbbbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"