Musical performance as analytical communication (original) (raw)

Performance and Authenticity in the Arts

Abstract

Music theorists often suggest that performance can communicate analytical insights. I disagree, arguing both experientially and by an analogy with Donald Davidson's philosophy of language. Composition and performance are better understood as stages in a unified process; thus, both as composition or, perhaps better, both as performance. First written and presented 1989, revised 1997-98.

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