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Analysing Performances of Western Art Music

Lina NAVICKAITE is a musicological researcher. She is now PHD scholar at the University of Helsinki (department of Musicology) after piano and musicological studies at the Lithuanian academy of Music.

With the assurance that immanent qualities and semantic features of performance practice affect musical communication, she explains the value of analysing performances, through concrete examples, of "canonical" pieces of Western art music.