Challenging Performance: The Book. 6 Delusions

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?
 

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