Musical Performance

<p>This book is a first sketch of what the overall field of performance could look like as a modern <i>scientific field</i> but not its stylistically differentiated practice, pedagogy, and history. Musical performance is the most complex field of music. It comprises the study of a composition’s expression in terms of analysis, emotion, and gesture, and then its transformation into embodied reality, turning formulaic facts into dramatic movements of human cognition. Combining th