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Inverse Performance Theory is the study of the reconstruction of the performance process from a given performance. This is a completely natural situation, since we usually perceive music as listeners and have to imagine what the performance could express, what it conveys in its complex signification process.
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Mazzola, G. (2011). What Is Inverse Performance Theory?. In: Musical Performance. Computational Music Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11838-8_24
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