Musical Performance

Performance, in the sense this book uses, is the most complex area of music. Guerino Mazzola treats it as a field that could be studied with the methods of modern science and sets out what such a field might look like. He is careful to call this a sketch, not a full account of the stylistically varied practice, teaching or history of performing music.

The approach follows a composition from the expression written into it, studied through analysis, emotion and gesture, to its realisation in a performer's body. The subtitle promises three things: theory, analytical tools and case studies.

Edition note: published by Springer. ISBN-13 9783642118371.