Taxonomy of Expressive Performance

Guerino Mazzola ()
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Guerino Mazzola: University of Zurich, Department of Information Technology MultiMedia Laboratory

Chapter Chapter 36 in The Topos of Music, 2002, pp 733-745 from Springer

Abstract: Summary Performance structure describes a semiotic fact: expression of meaning by shaping of score data. These expressive semantics are classified according to the three layers of reality captured by the topographic cube: Psychic, physical, and mental (see section 2.4). The first one means that performance expresses emotions, the second one deals with expression of gestural contents, and the third one—the musicologically most interesting one aims at giving one’s understanding of the musical text a rhetoric expression. In a realistic performance, all three expressive semantics will participate, however, a theory of expressive semantics must first of all deal with the “pure” types which are, each in its own way, difficult subjects of ongoing research. We will not deal with the psychological, cognitive or neurophysiological esthesic aspect of performance since this is part of music psychology and would exceed our subject.

Keywords: Musical Performance; Rational Semantic; Musical Structure; Expressive Performance; Bidirectional Transformation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-8141-8_36

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