How Plays Work

the dramatic character acts, while the novelist’s character

Tragedies are not performed, therefore, in order to represent character, though character is involved for the sake of the action… The plot, then, is the first essential of tragedy, its lifeblood, so to speak, and character takes the second place

As Brook puts it, ‘Life in the theatre is more readable and intense because it is more concentrated.’8 Elsewhere, he explains Shakespeare’s art primarily in terms of its concentration: ‘Shakespeare seems better in performance than anyone else because he gives us more, moment for moment, for our money.’9

Thus, E.M. Forster notes, ‘In the drama all human happiness and misery does and must take the form of action, otherwise its existence remains unknown, and this is the great difference between the drama and the novel.’

words in scansion and rhyme.
So music is a concentration of the pitch of normal life organised by melody (change over time), rhythm (repetition over time) and harmony (things happening simultaneously