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A first look at the history of performance research seems to confirm Reinhard Kopiez’s thesis [62] that there are two unrelated threads: on the one hand the empirical research as typically represented by Carl Seashore’s measurements of agogics [62], and on the other the philosophical research as typically represented by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno’s writings [2]. It is true that these threads can be recognized, and we shall give their short history below, but it is erroneous to consider them as being in any contradictory position.
At present, we have no comprehensive theory of performance.
Hermann Danuser [21, p. 320]
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Mazzola, G. (2011). Short History of Performance Theory. In: Musical Performance. Computational Music Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11838-8_3
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