The Practice of Performance

Preface; Part I. Fundamentals: 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 and Bruno H. Repp; 4. Deliberate practice and elite musical performance Ralf Th. Krampe and K. Anders Ericsson; Part II. Structure and Meaning in Performance: 5. The conductor and the theorist: Furtwängler, 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; Part III. Performance and Process: 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.