Challenging Performance
The Book
Preface
Part 1: Introduction 1
2 The status quo
3 Performance changes
4 Music identity
5 The music itself
6 Further delusions
6.1 Naturalised beliefs
6.2 You need to know
6.3 You must play structure
6.4 Current are best
6.5 Natural musicianship
6.6 Performances are unalike
6.7 Historical is best
6.8 Texts document sounds
6.9 Everything is in the score
6.10 A work is greater
6.11 Limited interpretations
6.12 Composer knows best
6.13 Composers’ intentions known
6.14 The inaudible performer
6.15 Composers are listening
6.16 Composers are gods
6.17 Works
6.18 So music is…
6.19 Why these delusions?
Part 2: Policing performance 7
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
7.8 Competitions
7.9 Alternatives
8 Musicology
9 / 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
11/11.1 Obligations to the dead
11.2 Philosophical obligations
11.3 Ethical obligations
12.1 Policing
12.2 Utopia
12.3 Self-policing
13 Lack of agency
14 Ill-health
14a Testimony
15 Legal constraints
Part 3: Allowing Creativity
18.1 Creativity
18.2 Theatre
19.1 Ethics 1
19.2 Ethics 2
20 Why and How?
21 Historical exx
22.1 How music works
22.2 Shape
22.3 Expression
22.4 Social action
22.5 Assessing
23 Examples
23.1 Moonlight Sonata
23.2 Ave Maria
23.3 Further transgressions
23.4 Using anxiety
24/24.1 Opera
24.2 Making ‘Dido & Belinda’
24.3 Performer views
24.4 Audience views
25 Reflecting current concerns
26 Speaking of others
27 Finally: Rights
Part 4: Related essays
30.1 Sounding the right
Contents
Summary
Interviews and Recordings
Iva Bittová and Dorothea Kellerová
Mandy Burvill
Mine Doğantan-Dack
Abigail Dolan
David Dolan
Diana Gilchrist
Shelley Katz
Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
Challenging Performance: The Book
What’s Wrong with Classical Music?
Bobby Mitchell
Aisha Orazbayeva
Anna Scott
Robert Toft
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‘Dido & Belinda’
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Interviews and recordings
Iva Bittová and Dorothea Kellerová
Mandy Burvill
Mine Doğantan-Dack
Abigail Dolan
David Dolan
Diana Gilchrist
Shelley Katz
Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Martin Lawrence
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
Bobby Mitchell
Aisha Orazbayeva
Anna Scott
Robert Toft
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Challenging Performance: The Book
‘Dido & Belinda’
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