...) with discussions of the cutting contests of jazz and rap, with the cutting edge, Werktreue or perfectly compliant performances of classical musicians, and the deathly cutting down of Karaoke singers in the Philippines. Special attention is given to the 1940 film of the Harlem Renaissance Broken Strings...

... that the concept of Werktreue still shapes much of our thinking and teaching in this area. This leads to a consideration of the respective roles of composer, performer and audience, generating a diagrammatic matrix which is progressively modified throughout the chapter. In its final, most dynamic...

...Investigates the force of the Werktreue ideal in various parts of musical practice––in the practices of jazz and the avant‐garde, and in early performance practice; it offers a reading specifically of John Cage's 4’ 33’. It looks too at the use of the Werktreue...

...Audio and video recordings document the transformations of Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni. While performers and scholars often urge Werktreue, “fidelity to the work,” successive generations reinterpret repertory staples in light of changing artistic and social expectations. Since the advent...

..., to get the most value out of this theft, it is necessary to be conscious of the composer's wishes. This will give the music the best chance of being understandable. The wishes of the listener, in this case, coincide with those of the composers. This chapter discusses fidelity to the composer, Werktreue...

... to subjective interpretation than in the mid-twentieth century. In the process of documenting these changes, this chapter contributes to ongoing discourse about the evolution of Werktreue and changing perceptions of the musical-work concept in relation to performance practices of Bach’s...

... concept of Werktreue to which these have given rise. Erskine Peter Jones John Paul Lee Stewart Jerry Springer Parricelli John sex and sexuality Smith Anna Nicole Thomas Richard Turnage Mark Anthony Adès Thomas Age of Consent “Heartbreak ” audience barrier between performers...

... fidelity theory that has gone out of fashion in recent years in other areas. Since the Romantic period, opera’s tradition of Werktreue has demanded authenticity in realizing the operatic work authenticated by tradition. This has made the critical acceptance of adaptations...

...This chapter questions how contemporary arrangements of canonic operas might subvert pervasive notions of Werktreue (faithfulness to the original) that exist for even twenty-first century performers. Drawing on ethnographic research completed in 2016 at the Banff Centre...

... and Werktreue. The growth of the new music festival after 1945 in particular, the role of radio stations, and the new music ensemble are surveyed, alongside specific performance issues involving indeterminacy, extended techniques, and new virtuosity. The final section asks questions about the meanings...

... is introduced to the problems inherent in the musical work, the ‘work concept’ (after Goehr 2007) and ‘werktreue’. Attention is drawn to some underlying issues with the authenticity movement critique itself, including its ahistorical andirrealistapproach. The chapter then develops a critical realist-informed...