The Practice of performance : studies in musical interpretation / edited by John Rink

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents Preface 1 What do we perform? / Roy Howat 2 Expression in performance: generativity, perception and semiosis / Eric Clarke 3 Musical motion and performance: theoretical and empirical perspectives / Patrick Shove, Bruno H. Repp 4 Deliberate practice and elite musical performance / Ralf Th. Krampe, K. Anders Ericsson 5 The conductor and the theorist: Furtwangler, Schenker and the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony / Nicholas Cook 6 A curious moment in Schumann's Fourth Symphony: structure as the fusion of affect and intuition / David Epstein 7 Beginning-ending ambiguity: consequences of performance choices / Janet M. Levy 8 Strategies of irony in Prokofiev's Violin Sonata in F minor Op. 80 / Ronald Woodley 9 Performance and analysis: interaction and interpretation / Joel Lester 10 Analysis and the act of performance / William Rothstein 11 The pianist as critic / Edward T. Cone 12 Playing in time: rhythm, metre and tempo in Brahms's Fantasien Op. 116 / John Rink Index