Music in Profile

Reviews / Votes

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. * Eric F. Clarke, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Oxford * Building on and developing key writings published in a wide range of sources, this book provides an overview of Rink's thinking that will be equally indispensable for academics interested in performance and for performers seeking to understand and develop their creative agency. * Nicholas Cook, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Cambridge * A twelve-step scrutiny of music performance studies, John Rink's Music in Profile offers the reader an astute, insightful and subtly personalised perspective on the discipline. Approaching the subject as both scholar and musical practitioner, the author maps a conception of performers' strategies, analysis, and self-reflection. * Lina Navickaite-Martinelli, Professor and Senior Researcher, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. * This book brings together three decades of John Rink's work rethinking and recasting scholarship on musical performance. His musicality, scholarship, and deep affection for Romantic piano music come through on every page. * Edward Klorman, Associate Professor, Schulich School of Music, McGill University * This collection of essays surveys the thinking of a pioneering figure in performance research, distinguished by methodological adventurousness, and steeped in love for the Romantic keyboard repertoire. * Natasha Loges, Professor at Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg * John Rink explores how performance and scholarship- so unalike in their nature, culture and procedures can communicate, interact, sometimes even merge. Judiciously and humanely, he enriches the reader's sense of how variously they may make music together. * Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Music, King's College London * Overall, Rink presents fascinating insights into processes of interpretation and performance from the perspectives of performer, scholar, and informed listener. In bringing together a breadth of methodologies, he offers models for others interested in the field. He also contributes to a growing body of scholarship expanding notions of the musical work. His book is a must-read for pianists, theorists, musicologists, ethnologists, ethnomusicologists, and for scholars of all kinds engaging or interested in performance studies and ontology. * Erinn E. Knyt, Notes * Overall, Rink presents fascinating insights into processes of interpretation and performance from the perspectives of performer, scholar, and informed listener. In bringing together a breadth of methodologies, he offers models for others interested in the field. He also contributes to a growing body of scholarship expanding notions of the musical work. His book is a mustread for pianists, theorists, musicologists, ethnologists, ethnomusicologists, and for scholars of all kinds engaging or interested in performance studies and ontology. * Erinn E. Knyt, Notes * Rink finds endless opportunities to implement diverse analytical perspectives, even within a limited body of works. Music in Profile is an admirable model for future researchers in performance studies and will probably be widely cited in the next three decades and beyond. * David Keep, Music & Letters *