MDPE.24:2.3 - Look for Music-and-Dance whole-making relations
Use the following questions as probes, not as a score and not as a checklist that creates the answer:
| Probe | Music-or-Dance observation that could matter |
|---|---|
| Boundary | Participation, repertoire, performance, teaching, publication, or access relations distinguish the candidate from neighboring practices. |
| Constitutive relations | Recurring coordination, supervision, commitment, exchange, teaching, performance, or mediation relations hold the candidate together rather than merely connecting unrelated participants. |
| States at this scale | The candidate can be in materially different states such as expanding, fragmenting, canonizing, losing capability, changing repertoire, or changing circulation. |
| Memory | Embodied lineages, repertoires, curricula, archives, maintained instrument or software configurations, event arrangements, and recurring teaching, performance, maintenance, or handover Work can support later recovery after participant turnover. Name what present Agents actually use, in which Work, and what they recover. |
| Transitions | The candidate has identifiable changes among its states, not merely a sequence of lower-scale performances or publications. |
| Recognition and selection | Variants, teachers, performers, works, or Methods are amplified, suppressed, retained, or dropped through relations that obtain at the candidate boundary. |
| Downward effect | The candidate changes what performers train, what creators make, what teachers teach, what partners expect, or what events and media present. |
| Persistence and identity | The candidate remains identifiable across turnover of individual Agents, artifacts, events, venues, or trends under a stated reidentification rule. |
| Temporal scale | Its state and memory persist across enough lower-scale Work to matter to the project; “slower” is evidence only when the relation is observed. |
| Larger-assembly compatibility | The candidate has interfaces and identity conditions under which it can remain a constituent of a larger scene, discipline, organization, or cultural ecology. |
When an assignment is used as memory evidence, name the A.2.1 assignment species and direct predicate, its
actual participants and extent. Then name the separate, existing relation by which performed Work, a maintained
result, or another continuity-bearing contribution supports later recovery. An assignment, roster, archive, or
configuration record alone does not establish performed Work, recovery, or cultural memory.
No single row establishes a whole. A popular name can lack constitutive relations. An archive can supply memory but no current performance capability. A network can persist but remain only an exchange relation among existing organizations. A platform can select variants without becoming either the artistic practice or the whole that performs it.