Performing Knowledge by Daphne Leong, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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, Bartok, 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 caninform 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 ofstructure 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, konnen and kennen-knowledge that, knowledge how, and knowledge through personal relationship. The essays also illustrate theinsights, 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 scholarshipand practice, a theory text enlivened by the voices of performers who create, interpret, and articulate structure. | Performing Knowledge by Daphne Leong, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters