Command performances, performance commands

Author: Balzano, Gerald

Source: Contemporary Music Review, Volume 4, Number 1, 1989 , pp. 437-446(10)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

This chapter reviews some major concerns in the study of music cognition, focusing on musical performance and composition. An attempt is made to discern the nature of the hybrid term “performance”. The different chapters dedicated to performance in this volume (by Shaffer; Carlson, Friberg, Frydén, Granström & Sundberg; Todd; and Kurkela) are discussed. Possible directions for the future of performance, composition, and music education are proposed in light of developments both in personal-computer/music-synthesis environments and in our understanding of the acquisition of musical skills. A strong need is expressed for cognitive studies to devote more attention to composition, which necessarily implies the participation of willing composers. A critique of the subject-object split that plagues the science of performance is developed. Finally, some thoughts on the future of music and the cognitive sciences are advanced with a critique of some of the basic assumptions of Cognitive Science and an examination of some alternatives in the realms of neural nets and ecological psychology.

Keywords: Music performance; music composition; computer learning environments; musical universals; perceptual learning; subjective-objective; neural nets; ecological psychology

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07494468900640471

Affiliations: 1: Department of Music, B-026, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093, USA

Publication date: 1989-01-01

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