performance studies

performance studies in music indicates a study of performance as research (see Rink 1995; 2002 ). Indeed, most studies are based on a combination of more than two approaches, but roughly six different approaches can be illustrated as below:

(i) music theorists would be interested in discovering the ways in which score analysis informs performance.
(ii) experimental or observational studies of performance would be of interests to music psychologists.
(iii) music performance would be considered as a cultural phenomenon by cultural musicologists.
(iv) computational musicologists would take investigations of performance itself as analysis.
(v) in music education research, developmental issues of performance would be considered significant.
(vi) a re-creation of historically informed style would be a significant aspect to historical musicologists.