Philosophy of the Performing Arts

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86 performance and the classical paradigm



  1. See Edidin 1991, 404.

  2. The most extended philosophical examination of the issues is in Kivy 1995.
    An earlier book on the subject is Leppard 1988. Kenyon 1988 is a specialized
    collection of papers by philosophers and musicologists. A lively exchange on
    the subject can be found in S. Davies 1987, 1988, and Young 1988. Other
    papers include: Baugh 1988; Goehr 1989; Edidin 1991; and Rubidge 1996.
    A critical review of the literature can be found in S. Davies 2001, ch. 5, where
    Davies also further develops the position defended in his earlier papers.

  3. See Kivy 1995, chs. 5 and 9; Edidin 1991, 415.

  4. See Kivy 1995, ch. 1, for these distinctions. See also Young 1988 and Edidin
    1991.

  5. For discussion of the relevance of Dipert’s paper for issues concerning
    authentic performance, see Edidin 1991, 413–415; Kivy 1995, 43–45;
    S. Davies 2001, 231–234.

  6. See S. Davies 2001, 234–237, for a defense of this claim, See also the
    discussion of “sensible authenticity” below.

  7. We shall return below to Kivy’s contention that the “aesthetic payoff ” of a
    performance of a performable work is the proper criterion for evaluating that
    performance.

  8. For a more detailed defense and response to criticisms, see S. Davies 2001, ch. 5.

  9. See Baugh 1988, 482: “The original world of the work vanishes with the first
    public.”

  10. Stephen Davies has made similar claims in more recent papers, where he
    describes musical performance as the bodying forth of human action. See, for
    example, his 2008, 369–371.

  11. See D. Davies 2004, 218, for a tentative endorsement of this proposal.

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