Interdisciplinary perspectives on musical performance: Historical and recent research

The authors of this additional e-chapter offer a critical survey of the main approaches to musical performance developed over the last few decades. After a general introduction to the concept of performance, part 1 (by Marco Lutzu) offers a historical overview of the study of musical performance in ethnomusicology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Part 2 (by Alessandro Cecchi) moves from a list of recent international projects on musical performance and goes on to present the "music as performance" paradigm in (historical) musicology, and the approaches of artistic or performance-led research. Part 2 continues by presenting three interdisciplinary research strands: the study of musical performance in and through the media, the perspective of cognitive science and neuroscience, the perspectives of music therapy, music psychology and disability studies.