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OverviewUnderpinned by author John Rink's internationally acclaimed scholarship and experience as a musician, this book addresses fascinating topics in the field of musical performance studies concerning the history, analysis and psychology of music, as well as artistic research. It offers manifold practical insights into musical performance, ranging from detailed technical features to overall shape. The volume has four main parts, focusing on performance and performance studies, historical performance, analysis and performance, and artistic research. Case studies of romantic piano pieces appear throughout, including Liszt's 'Vallée d'Obermann', Brahms's Fantasien Op. 116, and select preludes and concertos by Rachmaninoff and Chopin. The book also includes discussions of recordings by such artists as Alfred Brendel, Artur Rubinstein and Nikita Magaloff along with some outstanding performances in the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 2015.Rink explores issues surrounding the identity and artistic voice of the performer by elucidating the sense-making and decision-making process underlying musical performance of all kinds. He also offers broad insights into musical ontology, epistemology and semantics, in addition to demonstrating some of the methodologies now used to study performance. As a whole, the book highlights the powerful effects that experiencing music in performance can have on those who take part in it, in any capacity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Rink (Professor, Professor, University of Cambridge)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc ISBN: 9780197565391ISBN 10: 0197565395 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 29 February 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of figures List of music examples List of tables Acknowledgements Credits Note to readers Preface Part 1 On performance and performance studies Chapter 1 The state of play in musical performance studies Chapter 2 Impersonating the music in performance Chapter 3 The work of the performer Part 2 On historical performance Chapter 4 Moments of truth: performing musicology Chapter 5 Translating musical meaning: the performer as narrator Chapter 6 Authentic Chopin Part 3 On analysis and performance Chapter 7 From analysis to 'performer's analysis' Chapter 8 Playing in time Chapter 9 Analysing motif and gesture in performance Chapter 10 The (f)utility of performance analysis Part 4 On artistic research Chapter 11 Judging Chopin: an evaluation of musical experience Chapter 12 Between practice and theory: performance studies and/as artistic research Notes References IndexReviewsRink explores how performance and scholarship * so unalike in their nature, culture and procedures * This collection of essays surveys the thinking of a pioneering figure in performance research, distinguished by methodological adventurousness, and steeped in love for the Romantic keyboard repertoire. * Natasha Loges, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg * This book brings together three decades of John Rink's work rethinking and recasting scholarship on musical performance. His musicality, scholarship, and deep affection for Romantic piano music come through on every page. * Edward Klorman, Schulich School of Music, McGill University * For more than thirty years, John Rink has been the leading figure in the development - even the formation - of musical performance studies. Across the twelve chapters of this fascinating monograph, bringing together thoroughly revised and integrated essays that span that thirty-year period, Rink provides insights into the relationship between analysis and performance, gesture and narrative, notation and historical informedness, performer/performance identity, the past and the future of musical performance studies - and an intriguing account of his own experience as a juror at the International Chopin Piano Competition. Written in characteristically lucid and incisive prose this book is both a seminal and a culminating contribution to the field that Rink helped to define, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in musical performance. * Eric F. Clarke, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Oxford * The book is an essential read for musicians wishing to enhance their understanding of performance strategies, analysis, and performers' self-reflection. John Rink's comprehensive approach to music performance studies offers an astute, insightful and subtly personalised perspective on the discipline. * Lina Navickaite-Martinelli, Professor and Senior Researcher, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre * "Written in characteristically lucid and incisive prose this book is both a seminal and a culminating contribution to the field that Rink helped to define, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in musical performance. * Eric F. Clarke, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Oxford * Building on and developing key writings published in a wide range of sources, this book provides an overview of Rink's thinking that will be equally indispensable for academics interested in performance and for performers seeking to understand and develop their creative agency. * Nicholas Cook, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Cambridge * A twelve-step scrutiny of music performance studies, John Rink's Music in Profile offers the reader an astute, insightful and subtly personalised perspective on the discipline. Approaching the subject as both scholar and musical practitioner, the author maps a conception of performers' strategies, analysis, and self-reflection. * Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli, Professor and Senior Researcher, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. * This book brings together three decades of John Rink's work rethinking and recasting scholarship on musical performance. His musicality, scholarship, and deep affection for Romantic piano music come through on every page. * Edward Klorman, Associate Professor, Schulich School of Music, McGill University * This collection of essays surveys the thinking of a pioneering figure in performance research, distinguished by methodological adventurousness, and steeped in love for the Romantic keyboard repertoire. * Natasha Loges, Professor at Hochschule f""ur Musik Freiburg * John Rink explores how performance and scholarship- so unalike in their nature, culture and procedures can communicate, interact, sometimes even merge. Judiciously and humanely, he enriches the reader's sense of how variously they may make music together. * Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Music, King's College London *" Author InformationJohn Rink is Professor of Musical Performance Studies at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Music at St John's College, Cambridge. He is a prize-winning author and expert in the fields of performance studies, nineteenth-century music, music analysis and digital musicology. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Complete Chopin, and he also directed Chopin Online and the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice. He performs regularly as a pianist and lecture-recitalist, and has served on the jury of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 2015 and 2021. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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