
Composing Performances
Author(s) -
Daniel Barolsky
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
quodlibet
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2660-4582
pISSN - 1134-8615
DOI - 10.37536/quodlibet.2021.76.1436
Subject(s) - composition (language) , aesthetics , epistemology , linguistics , sociology , psychology , art , philosophy
All too often, critics, historians, and music analysts draw upon the aesthetic and analytic language of composition to describe and account for performed interpretations. This article explores the inequities and challenges that derive from this borrowing of language. Yet a study of Ernst Levy and his recorded performance of Brahms, however, reveals how compositional aesthetics can also be appropriated and repurposed to new creative ends.