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As the artist Marcel Duchamp famously said, the spectator completes the work. The audience is our final and most important collaborator. And in the artists’ communication with the audience, we can discover opera’s true anti-elite potential.
–Yuval Sharon: A New Philosophy of Opera
Very little. But a new study points to opportunities to learn more.
Here are a few early notes from my thinking on the topic of performance design:
Performance Design: An interdiscipline which examines and prescribes the tools and methods for designing a performance. Includes those tools under the traditional rubric of “interpretation” (examining manuscripts, historical studies, structural analysis) but also includes music perception fields (music cognition, information theory and neuroscience), programming, venue selection, and marketing.
Czerny’s metronome markings for Haydn’s London Symphonies. Czerny was a student of Haydn. Download the pdf here.
Source: Early Music. February 1988: 77-78.
