Just over twenty years ago, Todd and Clarke suggested that performers of Western art music
use expressive devices in order to clarify their own perspective on the structure of a
composition.'Performance analysis can study the characteristics of a performance in order to
discover those structural features of the composition which are highlighted in the
interpretation. In an earlier paper, we called this analytical process" inverse interpretation".^
This article presents our inverse interpretation of Martha Argerich's expressive timing during …

Just over twenty years ago, Todd and Clarke suggested that performers of Western art music
use expressive devices in order to clarify their own perspective on the structure of a
composition. 1 Performance analysis can study the characteristics of a performance in order
to discover those structural features of the composition which are highlighted in the
interpretation. In an earlier paper, we called this analytical process “inverse interpretation”. 2
This article presents our inverse interpretation of Martha Argerich's expressive timing during …