{"title":"Post-Première Revision: Guillaume de Machaut and Written Music in the Late Middle Ages","authors":"David Maw","doi":"10.1017/rma.2022.7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The question of post-première revision acquires signi fi cance when the première itself is understood as establishing a decisive moment in the relationship between the work and its audience. The première is more than simply a fi rst performance. It is a formal handing over of the work from the composer to the audience (the patron). Any change to it after that event constitutes perturbation of a publicly established relationship. For this situation to occur, the musical work must be held under a certain nexus of conditions:","PeriodicalId":17438,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Musical Association","volume":"147 1","pages":"252 - 259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the Royal Musical Association","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rma.2022.7","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MUSIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The question of post-première revision acquires signi fi cance when the première itself is understood as establishing a decisive moment in the relationship between the work and its audience. The première is more than simply a fi rst performance. It is a formal handing over of the work from the composer to the audience (the patron). Any change to it after that event constitutes perturbation of a publicly established relationship. For this situation to occur, the musical work must be held under a certain nexus of conditions:
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The Journal of the Royal Musical Association was established in 1986 (replacing the Association"s Proceedings) and is now one of the major international refereed journals in its field. Its editorial policy is to publish outstanding articles in fields ranging from historical and critical musicology to theory and analysis, ethnomusicology, and popular music studies. The journal works to disseminate knowledge across the discipline and communicate specialist perspectives to a broad readership, while maintaining the highest scholarly standards.