Performance, Autonomous Music And Meaning Flashcards
Autonomy
Independence/self-governing
Autonomy of music
Self contained
Music is independent from the time/place written
Autonomy and performance
Text, not a performing art
Executed, not interpreted
Detail in text shows desire to control performance
Score is music in its own right
Which composers believed in execution
Schienberg and Stravinsky
What goes against the indra of no expression
Each performance is different
Solution = score is music - autonomous object
What disagrees with the idea of ‘text’
Baroque = performer desides tempo and dynamics
Classical = common principles
Priority only put unit text after notation became complex
Romantic music critics
Performers brought emotion
Recording brought change
How did recording bring about change
Amphasis on accuracy
Characterisation needed emphasis
Musicology
Focus on score
Canon
Notation is the expression
Musicology re-assessing the relationship between text and performers
Global access Ethnomusicology Diversification Gender Interdisciplinary
Ethnomusicology
Awareness of limitations of views of Western art music
Social and cultural awareness
Fieldwork
Lydia Goehr
Imaginary museum of musical works
Early composes didn’t see music as works but just writing for the occasion or bc told to
Nicholas Cook
Distinctions between performers, study of performance and music as performance
Performance generates meaning
Music = script
Acts of making and receiving is more important than its existence
Eduard Hanslick
Formalist view reflects Schoenberd and Stravinsky
Composition is the finished work of art, regardless of performance
Aaron Ridley
Reacts against Hanslick
Significance seen in culture
