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Contents

Acknowledgments

i

1.

Dancing to Architecture?

1

1.1

The Problems of Researching and Writing about Music Performance

3

Problems with Historical Investigations of Music Performance

7

Is HIP a Modern Invention/Aesthetic or Does it Have Historical Grounding?

12

Data versus Narrative–Letting Go of Dancing or Returning to the Dance Floor?

13

1.2

Summary: Recordings, Aims and Method

17

2.

Theoretical Matters

25

2.1

Cultural Theories

28

HIP and Modernism

28

Modernism versus Postmodernism

31

HIP as a Mirror of Cultural Change

35

Aesthetics and Value Judgment: Beauty and the Sublime

39

2.2

Analytical Theories

42

Music Performance Studies

42

Empirical and Psychological Studies of Performance

48

2.3

Music Performance and Complex Systems

51

Gilles Deleuze and Difference in Music Performance

52

Music Performance as Complex Dynamical System

56

2.4

Performance Studies, Oral Culture and Academia

61

Research Roles: Performing Music or Analysing Performance?

62

Oral Cultures and the Aurality of Music Performance

65

Keeping Music Performance in the Aural Domain

69

Academia Once More

71

2.5

Conclusion

73

3.

Violinists, Violin Schools and Emerging Trends

75

3.1

Violinists

76

3.2

Violin Schools

87

3.3

The Influence of HIP on MSP

95

3.4

Diversity within Trends and Global Styles

106

3.5

Overall Findings and Individual Cases

116

Trends in Particular Movements

118

The Importance of Ornamentation

120

3.6

Conclusion

122

4.

Analyses of Performance Features

127

4.1

Tempo Choices

130

4.2

Vibrato

137

4.3

Ornamentation

146

Problems of Aesthetics and Notation Practices

146

The Role of Delivery

149

The Performance of Embellishments

153

Diversity—Once More

166

Ornamenting or Improvising?

169

Summary

170

4.4

Rhythm

172

Dotted Rhythms

173

Rhythmic Alteration

181

Rhythm and Musical Character

183

4.5

Bowing, Articulation and Phrasing

184

Bowing and Timbre

184

Multiple Stops

190

Phrasing and Dynamics

193

4.6

Conclusions

197

5.

Affect and Individual Difference: Towards a Holistic Account of Performance

201

5.1

Differences within the MSP and within the HIP Styles

202

The Loure

202

MSP Interpretations

203

HIP Interpretations

206

The Gavotte en Rondeau

207

HIP: Wallfisch and Huggett

208

MSP: Lev and Girngolts

210

Menuet I-II

211

5.2

Multiple Recordings of Violinists

217

Gidon Kremer

218

Rachel Barton Pine

221

Christian Tetzlaff

223

Sigiswald Kuijken

229

Viktoria Mullova

230

5.3

The Holistic Analysis of Interpretations

233

“Subjective” Aural Analysis: The D minor Giga

234

“Objective” Measures:
The A minor Grave and G minor Adagio

238

Perception of Affect

241

5.4

Idiosyncratic Versions and Listeners’ Reactions

247

Thomas Zehetmair

247

Monica Huggett

251

The E Major Preludio

254

5.5

Conclusions

268

6.

Conclusions and an Epilogue: The Complexity Model of Music Performance, Deleuze and Brain Laterality

273

6.1

Summary

286

6.2

Where to from Here?—Epilogue

287

The Brain and its Two Worlds

288

List of Audio Examples

297

List of Tables

303

List of Figures

305

Discography

307

References

313

Index

333