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SUMMARY:‘“It goes like this”: agency and the rhetoric of classical m
 usic performance’ - Prof Mary Hunter (Bowdoin College)
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DESCRIPTION:Taking Werktreue as the still-central ideology of classical mu
 sic performance\, this talk asks how performers conceptualize the complex 
 mix of agency and obligation involved in interpretation. Situating my work
  between the culturally non-theorized insights of performance studies and 
 the un- (or anti-) practical stance of philosophy\, I investigate a couple
  of kinds of linguistic formation  characteristic of performer talk in-act
 ion. These are declarative statements with  an unspecified “it” as the
  subject\, and one subset of deontic language (the modal verbs “should\,
 ” “ought\,” “must” “need”\, etc.). I conclude that these two
  kinds of sentence keep interpretation in the rhetorical world of service 
 to the work at the very same time as they manifest the performers’ creat
 ive agency. This kind of interpretative language\, I argue\, is “constit
 utive” of the work as it will be performed\, and is distinct from the mo
 re common decisions and locutions which figure the performer as less creat
 ively agential.\n\nMary Hunter is a musicologist with interests in eightee
 nth-century opera\, the history and ideology of performance\, and music in
  culture. She is the author of The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart’s Vi
 enna (Princeton\, 1999)\, which won the American Musicological Society’s
  Kinkeldey Prize\, and Mozart’s Operas: A Companion (Yale\, 2008). She i
 s the co-editor\, with James Webster\, of Opera Buffa in Mozart’s Vienna
  (Cambridge\, 1997) and\, with Richard Will\, of Engaging Haydn: Culture\,
  Context and Criticism (Cambridge\, 2012). She has been the editor of the 
 Journal of Musicological Research\, the Cambridge Opera Journal\, and AMS 
 Studies in Music. The author of many articles in such journals as The Jour
 nal of the American Musicological Society\, Journal of Musicology\, and Ca
 mbridge Opera Journal\, and in many edited collections\, she is currently 
 working on a project about the ideology of performance in classical music 
 culture.
LOCATION:Recital Room\, Faculty of Music
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