Literature

A minor selection of relevant literature on interpretation

Sontag, S. (1966). Against interpretation: And other essays. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Davies, S. (1988). Transcription, authenticity and performance. The British Journal of Aesthetics28(3), 216-227.

Goehr, L. (1992). The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music. Clarendon Press.

Thom, P. (2006). Toward a broad understanding of musical interpretation. Revue internationale de philosophie, (4), 437-452.

Silverman, M. (2007). Musical interpretation: philosophical and practical issues. International journal of music education25(2), 101-117.

Thom, P. (2007). The musician as interpreter. Penn State Press.

Sung, A., & Fabian, D. (2011). Variety in performance: A comparative analysis of recorded performances of Bach’s sixth suite for solo cello from 1961 to 1998.

Tsay, C. J. (2013). Sight over sound in the judgment of music performance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences110(36), 14580-14585.

Cook, N. (2013). Beyond the score: Music as performance. Oxford University Press.

D’errico, L. (2018). Powers of Divergence. Leuven University Press

Leech-Wilkinson, D. (2020). Challenging performance: Classical music performance norms and how to escape them.

Taylor, A. (2020). Death of the Composer? Making Meanings from Musical Performance. Music & Practice6.

Blier-Carruthers, A. (2020). The Problem of Perfection in Classical Recording: The Performer’s Perspective. The Musical Quarterly103(1-2), 184-236.

D’Errico, L. (2021). Sound beyond Representation: Experimental Performance Practices in Music. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies, 357-367.

Löndahl, T. (2022). Den klingande verklighetens foranderlighet, Göteborgs Universitet

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