Philosophy of the Performing Arts

ISBN: 9781405188036 出版年：2011 页码：244 David Davies Wiley

Part I: Performance and the Classical Paradigm. Chapter 1 The Nature of Artistic Performance. I Introduction. II What is a performance? III Institutional theories of artistic performance. IV Aesthetic theories of artistic performance. V Artistic performance and artistic regard . VI Overview. Chapter 2 The Classical Paradigm I: The Nature of the Performable Work. I Introduction: Berthold and Magda go to the symphony. II The multiple nature of performable works. III Performable works as types . IV Varieties of type theories: sonicism, instrumentalism, and contextualism. V Other theories of the performable work. a/ Performable works as indicated types. b/ Performable works as continuants . c/ Performable works as indicatings of types. d/ Fictionalism about performable works. Chapter 3 The Classical Paradigm II: Appreciating Performable Works in Performance. I Introduction: talking appreciatively about performable works. II Can performable works share artistic properties with their performances? III The Goodman argument . IV Answering the Goodman argument . Chapter 4 Authenticity in Musical Performance. I Introduction. II Authenticity in the arts. III Three notions of historically authentic performance. a/ Authenticity defined in terms of composer s intentions. b/ Authenticity defined in terms of the sound of the work. c/ Authenticity defined in terms of performance practice. Chapter 5 Challenges to the Classical Paradigm in Music. I Introduction: The classical paradigm in the performing arts. II The scope of the paradigm in classical music. III Jazz, rock, and the classical paradigm. a/ Jazz. b/ Rock. IV Non-Western music and the classical paradigm. Chapter 6 The Scope of the Classical Paradigm: Theatre, Dance, and Literature. I Introduction: Berthold and Magda go to the theatre. II Theatrical performances and performable works. III Challenges to the classical paradigm in theatre. IV Dance and the classical paradigm. V The novel as performable work? Part II: Performance as Art . Chapter 7 Performances as Artworks. I Introduction: spontaneous performance in the arts. II The artistic status of performances outside the classical paradigm. III The artistic status of performances within the classical paradigm. Chapter 8 Elements of Performance I: Improvisation and Rehearsal. I Introduction. II The nature of improvisation. III Improvisation and performable works: three models. a/ Improvisation on a theme. b/ Improvisational composition. c/ Pure improvisation. IV Improvisation and recording. V The place of rehearsal in the performing arts. Chapter 9 Elements of Performance II: Audience and Embodiment. I Can there be artistic performance without an audience? II Audience response. III The embodied performer and the mirroring receiver. Chapter 10 Performance Art and the Performing Arts. I Introduction. II Some puzzling cases. III What is performance art ? IV When do works of performance art involve artistic performances? V Performance as art: a final case. Bibliography. Index .