Исполнительское искусство – недостающее звено интегральной теории музыки
Performance Art as a Missing Link in an Integrated Theory of Music

Summary/Abstract: Where do we seek the fulfillment of a musical theory? The greatest musical masterpieces changed world culture and defined civilization. Performing musicians forsook improvisation and embarked on the selfless mission of worshipping the beauty of music. A demand for genius had arisen. Music theory, however, did not respond in kind, having been robbed by performance technique. This article proposes a path of recovery. Music theory can only ascend to the heights of great musical beauty with two wings: one for the unity of compositional studies, the other for their interpretive theory. The attuned ear seeks a new vision. Music as a miracle, performers as wonderworkers The following describes a nuanced method of analysis for the performance of musical masterpieces. The key to this is that great exponents hold dominants, keynotes, cadenzas, syntactical functions, and other elements of the musical language not just as internal mechanisms, but as the flickering energy of pure beauty. Therefore, the attuned ear is the living organ of that search for beauty beyond thought that delights people and elevates civilizations. The subject of this analysis is ?Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso? by Camille Saint-Saens performed by Jascha Heifetz.

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