Investigating Musical Performance: Theoretical Models and Intersections
- Editor: Borio, Gianmario
- Editor: Cecchi, Alessandro
- Editor: Giuriati, Giovanni
- Editor: Lutzu, Marco
Investigating Musical Performance: Theoretical Models and Intersections
- Editor: Borio, Gianmario
- Editor: Cecchi, Alessandro
- Editor: Giuriati, Giovanni
- Editor: Lutzu, Marco
Purchase product
About
Investigating Musical Performance considers the wide range of perspectives on musical performance made tangible by the cross-disciplinary studies of the last decades and encourages a comparison and revision of theoretical and analytical paradigms. The chapters present different approaches to this multi-layered phenomenon, including the results of significant research projects. The complex nature of musical performance is revealed within each section which either suggests aspects of dialogue and contiguity or discusses divergences between theoretical models and perspectives. Part I elaborates on the history, current trends and crucial aspects of the study of musical performance; Part II is devoted to the development of theoretical models, highlighting sharply distinguished positions; Part III explores the relationship between sign and sound in score-based performances; finally, the focus of Part IV centres on gesture considered within different traditions of musicmaking. Three extra chapters by the editors complement Parts I and III and can be accessed via the online Routledge Music Research Portal. The volume shows actual and possible connections between topics, problems, analytical methods and theories, thereby reflecting the wealth of stimuli offered by research on the musical cultures of our times.
Contents
- Introduction
- Gianmario Borio, Giovanni Giuriati, Alessandro Cecchi and Marco Lutzu
- PART I: Overviews/Perspectives
- 1 Empirical methods in the study of music performance: An interdisciplinary history
- Martin Clayton
- 2 Musical performance as a medium of value
- Timothy D. Taylor
- PART II: Listening/Positioning
- 3 'Musical Personae' revisited
- Philip Auslander
- 4 The performer's experience: Positional listening and positional analysis
- John Covach
- 5 Music's techno-chronemics
- Martin Scherzinger
- PART III: Sign/Sound
- 6 Who's keeping the score?
- Janet Schmalfeldt
- 7 Judging Chopin: An evaluation of musical experience
- John Rink
- 8 Towards a consideration of the contemporary musical work as 'a work in progress': Closing the gaps between the score, the form and the future of the work
- Pierre Michel
- PART IV: Gesture/Shape
- 9 Between music and noise: The discussion of portamento and its socio-aesthetic implications during the long nineteenth century
- Camilla Bork
- 10 Radical staging and the habitus of the singer
- Mary Ann Smart
- 11 The physiognomy of the voice: Vocal gestures in Italian experimental music (1960-1970)
- Michela Garda
- 12 Sentimental gesture and the politics of 'shape' in the performances of Abd al-Halim Hafiz
- Martin Stokes
- 13 Marking the sam: tal, tempo and gesture in khyal performance
- Laura Leante
- 14 Lokapanca: Analysing structure, performance and meanings of a temple song in Nepal
- Richard Widdess
