MDPE.19:0.1 - Working Distinctions
Name the world-side subject before using continuation language. A variant in this pattern can be, for example, a performance Method, musical or movement material, a teaching Method, a performance configuration, an event form, or a recognition arrangement. These subjects can continue or fail independently.
Keep five distinctions visible:
| Distinction | Practical consequence |
|---|---|
| Record versus practice | A score, video, model, tutorial, or archive entry can support reconstruction; reproducing the practice requires Music-or-Dance Work. |
| Occurrence versus reproducibility | One performance shows that one performance occurred. Continuation requires another representative occurrence or credible capacity to produce one when needed. |
| Performer versus performing whole | A performing Agent performs Work, and that Work enacts a Method. The wider performing whole can also require a body, partner, instrument, software, venue equipment, or other supporting Systems. |
| Support versus fragility | Intended support is not a defect. It becomes a continuation risk when the receiving use requires replacement, variation, or operation after that support changes. |
| Local retirement versus cultural loss | A school can stop a class and an ensemble can remove a work from its repertoire. Neither decision establishes that a wider practice has disappeared. |
Here Agent means a System with enough agency for the deciding or performing contribution in the case. Use System for an instrument, venue, platform, archive, software component, or other participant when agency is not established or is irrelevant.