Challenging Performance: Classical Music Performance Norms and How to Escape Them
What is this audiobook about? Who is it for? Will you like it? How to provide feedback.
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Challenging Performance, Chapter 1 : Introduction and Examples.
Classical music can be -- and has been -- performed very differently and still be wonderful. Why is the classical music business so frightened of difference? Alternatives are illustrated. How might pe...
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Challenging Performance, Chapter 2 : The fabulous status quo
The factors that make modern performance so effective, and the problems they bring.
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Challenging Performance, Chapter 3 : Performance changes over time
Early recordings prove that 'correct' performance style changes over time. So what's 'proper' now was 'unmusical' 100 years ago, and vice versa. Are there yet other ways of making great performances?
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Challenging Performance, Chapter 4 : Performing identity
As performance style changes, so score and composer identity change. Examples from Schubert, Boulez, Barber, and Brahms. None is who they were -- or will be.
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Challenging Performance, Chapter 5 : The (actual) music, the music itself, musical
What do these phrases really mean? What kind of work do they try to do? What weaknesses in thinking about the nature of classical music do they hide?
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Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.1 : Delusions -- Introduction: naturalised beliefs
Beliefs about the 'proper' performance of classical scores are so deeply inculcated in musicians' training that they come to seem natural. Yet many (most?) are delusions.
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Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.2 : Delusions -- You need to know about music to appreciate it
You don't need musical training or knowledge to have powerful experiences listening to classical music; you simply need exposure to it. Sometimes 'knowledge' makes it harder to enjoy...
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