Music Performance Analysis
Alexander Lerch · 2012
Music is a performing art. While the differentiation between the score and its performance is hard in the case of popular music, this is not the case with classical western music. Here, it requires a performer or a group of performers who “self-consciously enacts music for an audience”. The performers render the composer's work, a score containing musical ideas and performance instructions, into a physical realization. Music Performance Analysis (MPA) aims at studying the performance of a musical score rather than the musical score itself. It deals with the observation, extraction, description, interpretation, and modeling of music performance parameters as well as the analysis of attributes and characteristics of the generation and perception of music performance. Different areas of research contribute to the field of MPA, including musicology, (music) psychology and engineering. Controlled Vocabulary Terms electronic music; music; performance evaluation