Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
Spring 2025
Abstract
Julian Dodd has criticized Stephen Davies’s widely accepted view of the authentic performance of scored works of Western classical music and proposed a new theory according to which “interpretive authenticity” trumps compliance with the work’s score. I argue that the theories of the nature, meaning, and value of works and performances on which Dodd relies cannot be used to defend his theory. I then argue for an alternative view of authentic work performance that combines the best of Dodd’s and Davies’s ideas: an authentic performance is one that aims to evince understanding of the work through complying fully with its score.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpaf005
Repository Citation
Kania, Andrew. “Musical Meaning and Authentic Work Performance: Three Dilemmas for the Interpretive Authenticist .” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 83, no. 2, Spring 2025, pp. 128–140, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpaf005.
Publication Information
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism