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A Musicology of Performance

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Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance

Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance

What kind of character is a microbe? How can an ecosystem take to the stage? Do springtails make good protagonists for detective novels? Life, Re-Scaled explores how contemporary literature and performance engage with our century’s shifting views of life.

From Stage to Page: Studying the Performance of Music

A Musicology of Performance

From Stage to Page: Studying the Performance of Music

Why study the performance of music? Is it not the composer who creates “the music” that listeners of Western classical music enjoy hearing? Does the performer matter? What can an instrumentalist, conductor or singer contribute to “the music” left behind by the composer and immortalised in the notated score? Well,