6 Further Western Classical Music delusions
6.1 Introduction: naturalised beliefs
- 6.2 You need to know about music to appreciate it
- 6.3 You must play structure
- 6.4 Current performances offer the best solutions
- 6.5 Learning to perform is learning natural musicianship
- 6.6 Performers and performances today are very unalike
- 6.7 Music makes better sense performed ‘historically’
- 6.8 Texts document sounds
- 6.9 Everything is in the score
- 6.10 A work is greater than any performance of it
- 6.11 Scores have limited interpretative possibilities
- 6.12 The composer knows best
- 6.13 Composers’ intentions are (can be) known
- 6.14 The performer should be inaudible
- 6.15 Composers are alive and listening
- 6.16 Composers are gods
- 6.17 Works
6.18 So music is…. What is it?
6.19 Conclusion: Why do we maintain these delusions?
Continue to 6.1 ‘Naturalised beliefs’