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Performance Grammars

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The Topos of Music II: Performance

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The idea of basing performance on rules in analogy with linguistic grammar goes back to Mathis Lussy [631]. In modern performance research, this terminology was recovered by Johan Sundberg and his school [1024]. We discuss the principles for a grammar of performance and give an overview of representative approaches to this theory.

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Mazzola, G. (2017). Performance Grammars. In: The Topos of Music II: Performance. Computational Music Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64444-8_6

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