Music in profile : twelve performance studies /

"This book reflects the increasing significance of musical performance studies in recent decades. Originally published as separate essays over thirty years, the twelve chapters have been refashioned as a monograph which is both scholarly in nature and intensely personal, building on the author&...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rink, John (John Scott) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. On performance and performance studies. The state of play in musical performance studies ; Impersonating the music in performance ; The work of the performer
  • Part 2. On historical performance. Moments of truth : performing musicology ; Translating musical meaning : the performer as narrator ; Authentic Chopin
  • Part 3. On analysis and performance. From analysis to 'performer's analysis' ; Playing in time ; Analysing motif and gesture in performance ; The (f)utility of performance analysis
  • Part 4. On artistic research. Judging Chopin : an evaluation of musical experience ; Between practice and theory : performance studies and/as artistic research.