Five perspectives on Body and Soul and other contributions to music performance research

This volume presents the papers of the International conference on music performance analysis held in Lucerne, Switzerland, on July 1 and 2, 2009. The first part of the book, entitled Five perspectives on 'Body and Soul', focuses on recorded versions of Johnny Green's iconic jazz standard Body and Soul by shedding light on the performance history of the tune. It contains papers by José Antonio Bowen, Martin Pfleiderer, Cynthia Folio / Alexander Brinkman, John Gunther, and Olivier Senn. The second part, entitled Methods of music performance analysis, addresses methodological issues for the analysis of performed music. The papers of Marc-Antoine Camp et al., Elena Alessandri, Matthias Arter, Richard Turner, Jürg Huber, and Claudia di Luzio discuss a variety of approaches and present Music Performance Studies as a thoroughly interdisciplinary field.

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This volume presents the papers of the "International conference on music performance analysis" held in Lucerne, Switzerland, on July 1 and 2, 2009. The first part of the book, entitled "Five perspectives on 'Body and Soul'", focuses on recorded versions of Johnny Green's iconic jazz standard "Body and Soul" by shedding light on the performance history of the tune. It contains papers by José Antonio Bowen, Martin Pfleiderer, Cynthia Folio / Alexander Brinkman, John Gunther, and Olivier Senn. The second part, entitled "Methods of music performance analysis", addresses methodological issues for the analysis of performed music. The papers of Marc-Antoine Camp et al., Elena Alessandri, Matthias Arter, Richard Turner, Jürg Huber, and Claudia di Luzio discuss a variety of approaches and present Music Performance Studies as a thoroughly interdisciplinary field.

Inhalt
I Five perspectives on Body and Soul José Antonio Bowen: Recordings as sources for jazz. A performance history of Body and Soul Martin Pfleiderer: Body and Soul and the mastery of jazz tenor saxophone Cynthia Folio and Alexander Brinkman: Dexter Gordon's ultimate Body and Soul John Gunther: Transmigrations of Body and Soul. Three contemporary interpretations of a jazz classic analyzed and applied to performance Oliver Senn: mieux citron que jamais. Thelonious Monk plays Body and Soul II Methods of music performance analysis Marc-Antoine Camp, Lorenz Kilchenmann: On measuring and interpreting microtiming Elena Alessandri: The discography or what analysis of recordings do before analyzing Matthias Arter: Measuring and describing music Richard Turner: The power of the maestro. Statistical technique to differentiate conductors' interpretations Jürg Huber: Transmission or interpretation? Pierre Boulez's performance of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring Claudia di Luzio: Sound, space, and gesture in music theatre today