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Musical Works and Performances - A Philosophical Exploration (Paperback)
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Musical Works and Performances - A Philosophical Exploration (Paperback)
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What are musical works? Are they discovered or created? Of what
elements are they comprised? How are they specified by notations?
What makes a performance of one piece and not another? Is it
possible to perform old music authentically? Can ethnic music
influenced by foreign sources and presented to tourists genuinely
reflect the culture's musical and wider values? Can recordings
substitute faithfully for live performances? These are the
questions considered in Musical Works and Performances. Part One
outlines the nature of musical works, their relation to
performances, and their notational specification. Works for
performance differ from ones that are merely for playback, and
pieces for live rendition are unlike those for studio performance.
Pieces vary in the number and kind of their constitutive
properties. The identity of musical works goes beyond their sonic
profile and depends on their music-historical context. To be of a
given work, a performance must match its contents by following
instructions traceable to its creation. Some pieces are indicated
via exemplars, but many are specified notationally. Scores must be
interpreted in light of notational conventions and performance
practices they assume. Part Two considers authenticity in
performance, musical traditions, and recordings. A performance
should follow the composer's instructions. Departures from the
ideal are tolerable, but faithfulness is central to the enterprise
of work performance, not merely an interpretative option. When
musical cultures interact, assimilation from within differs from
destruction from without. Even music subject to foreign influences
can genuinely reflect the musical traditions and social values of a
culture, however. Finally, while most works are for live
performance, most performances are experienced via recordings,
which have their own, distinctive characteristics. This
comprehensive and original analysis of musical ontology discusses
many kinds of music, and applies its conclusions to issues as
diverse as the authentic performance movement, the cultural
integrity of ethnic music, and the implications of the dominance of
recorded over live music.
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