Music in Profile

John Rink is Professor of Musical Performance Studies at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Music at St John's College, Cambridge. He is a prize-winning author and expert in the fields of performance studies, nineteenth-century music, music analysis and digital musicology. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Complete Chopin, and he also directed Chopin Online and the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice. He performs regularly as a pianist and lecture-recitalist, and has served on the jury of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 2015 and 2021.

• List of figuresList of music examplesList of tablesAcknowledgementsCreditsNote to readersPrefacePart 1 On performance and performance studiesChapter 1 The state of play in musical performance studiesChapter 2 Impersonating the music in performanceChapter 3 The work of the performerPart 2 On historical performanceChapter 4 Moments of truth: performing musicologyChapter 5 Translating musical meaning: the performer as narratorChapter 6 Authentic ChopinPart 3 On analysis and performanceChapter 7 From analysis to 'performer's analysis'Chapter 8 Playing in timeChapter 9 Analysing motif and gesture in performanceChapter 10 The (f)utility of performance analysisPart 4 On artistic researchChapter 11 Judging Chopin: an evaluation of musical experienceChapter 12 Between practice and theory: performance studies and/as artistic researchNotesReferencesIndex

Written in characteristically lucid and incisive prose this book is both a seminal and a culminating contribution to the field that Rink helped to define, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in musical performance.