Challenging Performance
The Book
1 Introduction
2 The status quo
3 Performance changes
4 Identity
5 The music
6 Delusions
6.1 Naturalised beliefs
6.2 You need to know about music
6.3 You must play structure
6.4 Current performances are best
6.5 Performing natural musicianship
6.6 Performers and performances are unalike
6.7 Music is best performed ‘historically’
6.8 Texts document sounds
6.9 Everything is in the score
6.10 A work is greater than any performance
6.11 Scores have limited interpretations
6.12 The composer knows best
6.13 Composers’ intentions are known
6.14 The performer should be inaudible
6.15 Composers are listening
6.16 Composers are gods
6.16a Response by Emily Payne
6.17 Works
6.18 So music is…
6.19 Why these delusions?
7 Teaching
7.1 Teachers and State
7.2 Childhood lessons
7.3 Exam boards
7.4 Conservatoire 1
7.5 Conservatoire 2
7.6 Virtuoso class
7.7 Micro schools
7.7a State Teaching
7.8 Competitions
7.9 Alternatives
8 Musicology
9.1 Criticism
9.2 Reviews 1
9.3 Reviews 2
9.4 Social media
9.5 Risk
9.6 Lack of debate
10 Normativities
11 Obligations 1
11.2 Obligations 2
11.3 Obligations 3
12.1 Policing
12.2 Utopia
12.3 Self-policing
13 Lack of agency
14 Ill-health
14a Mandy Burvill
15 Legal constraints
18 Creativity
18.1 Creativity
18.2 Theatre
19.1 Ethics 1
19.2 Ethics 2
20 Why and How?
20a: Going beyond the text
21 Historical exx
22.1 Music working
22.1b Work terminology
22.2 Shape
22.3 Expression
22.4 Social action
22.5 Assessing
23 Examples
23.1 New Moon
23.2 Ave Maria
23.3 Further transgressions
23.4 Using anxiety creatively
24 Opera
24.2 Making ‘Dido & Belinda’
24.3 Performer feedback
24.4 Audience feedback
25 Current concerns
26 Others
27 Rights
30.0 Related essays
30.1 Sounding the right
About the author
Acknowledgements
Summary
‘Dido & Belinda’
‘Dido & Belinda’: Biographies
Making ‘Dido & Belinda’
Performer feedback
Audience feedback
What’s Wrong with Classical Music?
Interviews and Recordings
Iva Bittová and Dorothea Kellerová
Challenging Performance: The Book. 14a Mandy Burvill
Mine Doğantan-Dack
Interview with Prof Mine Doğantan-Dack
Abigail Dolan
David Dolan
Diana Gilchrist
Ave Maria narratives
Shelley Katz
Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
Challenging Performance: The Book
Bobby Mitchell
Eszter Osztrosits and Imre Dani
Anna Scott
Robert Toft
Contribute a performance
Repertoire
Contact
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