Performance practice

Performance practice describes the empirical knowledge conveyed through writing, teaching and sound of the handling of specific circumstances in the performance of music or other works of the performing arts such as theater and dance .

It is the knowledge of staffing levels , ensemble line-ups, the choice of suitable premises, appropriately styled instruments, playing techniques, and especially an appropriate style musical interpretation , so ask the appropriate tempi, dynamics and articulation. Thus, the term is not limited to certain styles of music and also not to past epochs.

Practical performance issues are the subject of higher education, including conductors and composers .

Historical performance practice deals with the performance of early music .

Web links

• Hartmut Krones : performance practice. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .