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Performing Works of Music Authentically
Author(s) -
Dodd Julian
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
european journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1468-0378
pISSN - 0966-8373
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0378.2012.00546.x
Subject(s) - norm (philosophy) , ideal (ethics) , compliance (psychology) , value (mathematics) , aesthetics , psychology , social psychology , epistemology , work (physics) , computer science , philosophy , engineering , mechanical engineering , machine learning
This paper argues that, within the W estern ‘classical’ tradition of performing works of music, there exists a performance value of authenticity that is distinct from that of complying with the instructions encoded in the work's score. This kind of authenticity— interpretive authenticity —is a matter of a performance's displaying an understanding of the performed work. In the course of explaining the nature of this norm, two further claims are defended: that the respective values of interpretive authenticity and score compliance can come into conflict; and that when this happens, compromising ideal score compliance for the sake of making the performance more interpretively authentic can make for a better performance.