Full Description
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
I.
The interactive and spatial life of music: towards a composite ethnomusicological approach for
the analysis of musical performance
by Giovanni Giuriati
On the sonorous rendering of musical texts: theoretical stances since the early nineteenth century
by Gianmario Borio
Empirical methods in the study of music performance: an interdisciplinary history
by Martin Clayton
Musical performance as a medium of value
by Timothy D. Taylor
'Musical Personae' revisited
by Philip Auslander
The performer's experience: positional listening and positional analysis
by John Covach
Music's techno-chronemics
by Martin Scherzinger
Investigating musical performance: an overview of recent perspectives
by Alessandro Cecchi, Marco Lutzu
II.
Who's keeping the score?
by Janet Schmalfeldt
Judging Chopin: an evaluation of musical experience
by John Rink
The manufacture of extravagant gesture: labour and emotion on the operatic stage
by Mary Ann Smart
The physiognomy of the voice: vocal gestures in Italian experimental music (1960-70)
by Michela Garda
Sentimental gesture and the politics of 'shape' in the performances of Abd al-Halim Hafiz
by Martin Stokes
Marking the sam: tal, tempo and gesture in khyal performance
by Laura Leante
Lokapañca: analysing structure, performance and meanings of a temple song in Nepal
by Richard Widdess
Between music and noise: the discussion of portamento and its socio-aesthetic implications during
the long nineteenth century
by Camilla Bork
Towards a consideration of the contemporary musical work as 'a work in progress'
by Pierre Michel
