In Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook supplants the traditional
musicological notion of music as writing, asserting instead that it is as performance that …

A musical performance renders an acoustic realization of a musical score or other
representation of a composition. Different performances of the same composition may vary …

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) tends to focus on the analysis of audio signals. Often, a
single music recording is used as representative of a" song" even though different …

This paper explores the characteristics and impacts of adopting an improvisatory approach
to the performance of classical chamber music. Improvisatory approaches to the classical …

Many songs and dance pieces from the Balkan Peninsula employ aksak meter, in which two
categorically different durations, long and short, coexist in the sequence of beats that …

In 1960s and 1970s singer-songwriter music, some artists used a malleable approach to
meter in performance that resulted in songs with extremes of self-expressive timing flexibility …

Many musicians performing an ensemble work would aim to achieve good, if not perfect,
synchronisation of timing for the sake of an effective rendition (McCaleb, 2014). In this …

This paper presents a comparative recording analysis of the seminal work for solo
percussion Rebonds (Iannis Xenakis, 1989), in order to demonstrate how performances of a …

This study focuses on the relationships between music analysis, performance, and tension
perception. Part 1 examines harpsichordists' analyses and performances of an unmeasured …

A body of post-tonal compositions (including works by Berio, Birtwistle, Boulez, Donatoni,
Feldman, and Sciarrino) engage in what I term “maximalist repetition”: they employ diverse …