Breaking the Gap between Musicology and Music Performance An Analysis of the Study of Chinese Music Performance Practice

Abstract

In 2011, Cambridge University held an international academic conference-- performance studies network international conference, and proposed to establish the discipline of performance musicology in 2014, which made it possible to solve the old contradiction between musicology and music performance. This paper explains the possibility and inevitability of the common maturity of musicology and music performance, and seeks more breakthrough points to break the barrier. Through literature analysis, this paper constructs the core value of the practicality of music performance research from the perspective of interdisciplinary integration. This paper finds that the development of the two academic fields of music performance research and musicology is a mutual achievement and common growth. With the help of musicology, music performance research will make performance more speculative and logical, and musicology will have more practical value with the entry of music performance.