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Print Price: $71.50

Format:
Hardback
400 pp.
150 illustrations, 7" x 10"

ISBN-13:
9780190653545

Publication date:
December 2019

Imprint: OUP US

Performing Knowledge

Twentieth-Century Music in Analysis and Performance

Daphne Leong

Series : Oxford Studies in Music Theory

How do musical performance and analysis relate? Performing Knowledge explores this question through a unique collaboration between a music theorist and a cast of internationally renowned performers. Theorist Daphne Leong investigates major musical works of the twentieth century - Ravel, Schoenberg, Bartók, Schnittke, Milhaud, Messiaen, Babbitt, Carter, and Morris - in essays co-authored with musicians who perform these works at the highest level. Their discussions range over issues essential to understanding the impact analysis can have on performance, and how performance can inform analysis: the role of embodiment, the affordances of a score, the cultural understanding of notation, the use of metaphor, the antagonisms and synthesis of analysis and performance, and-to round out the viewpoints of theorist and performers with those of composer and listeners-the role of structure in audience reception.

With a focus on musical structure, Leong and her collaborators uncover three dimensions of knowledge emerging from the interaction of analysis and performance: wissen, können and kennen-knowledge that, knowledge how, and knowledge through personal relationship. The essays also illustrate the insights, frictions, consonances, and dissonances that occur when the two cultures of theorists and performers, with their distinct values, practices, and vocabularies, meet. Both flexibly and rigorously conceived, Performing Knowledge is a brave crossing of disciplinary divides between scholarship and practice, a theory text enlivened by the voices of performers who create, interpret, and articulate structure.

Readership : Music theorists, musicologists and performers at professional and advanced or graduate-student levels. Sourcebook for graduate courses on analysis and performance.

Acknowledgments
Permissions
Note to Readers
About the Companion Website
Contributors
Theme: Performers, Structure, and Ways of Knowing
Counterpoint: Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
Variations
Performance & Analysis
1. Determination of Structure: Performers' Voices on Ravel's Concerto pour la main gauche
2. Creation of Structure: Interpreting Schoenberg's Klavierstück Op. 19 No. 4
3. Understanding of Structure: Performed Rhythm at the Center of Bartók's Fifth String Quartet
Analysis & Performance
4. Story in Structure: Schnittke's Piano Quartet and "the attempt to remember"
5. Poetry in Structure: Counterpointing Motion in Milhaud's "Aurore"
6. Drama in Structure: Enacting Ritual and Drama: The Two Pianos of Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen
Performance & Analysis
7. Script Versus Structure: Virtuosity in Babbitt's Lonely Flute, with Reflections on Process
8. Performing With Structure: Local Frictions and Long-Range Connections in Carter's Changes for Guitar
9. Reception and Structure: Morris's Clear Sounds, Audiences, and New Music
Counterpoint: Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
Theme: Performers, Structure, and Ways of Knowing
Bibliography
Index

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Daphne Leong is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research interests include rhythm, analysis and performance, and the music of 20th- and 21st-century composers. Her publications appear in journals such as Journal of Music Theory, Perspectives of New Music, and Music Theory Online, as well as in edited collections on Bartók, Ravel, and the pedagogy of music theory. She is an active pianist and chamber musician, whose repertoire ranges from Bach to premieres of current music.

Making Sense - Margot Northey
Music at Hand - Jonathan De Souza
Distributed Creativity - Edited by Eric F. Clarke and Mark Doffman

Special Features

Features a unique collaboration between music theory and world-class musicians.
Engages with 20th-century music, a repertoire underrepresented in the literature on analysis and performance.
Illuminates key issues in the relationship between analysis and performance.