Performance and the classical paradigm:-- 1. Nature of artistic performance -- Introduction -- What is a performance? -- Institutional theories of artistic performance -- Aesthetic theories of artistic performance -- Artistic performance and artistic regard -- Overview -- 2. The classical paradigm I : The nature of the performable work -- Introduction : Berthold and Magda go to the symphony -- The multiple nature of performable works -- Performable works as types -- Varieties of type theories : Sonicism, Instrumentalism, and Contextualism -- Other theories of the performable work -- 3. The classical paradigm II : Appreciating performable works in performance -- Introduction : Talking appreciatively about performable works -- Can performable works share artistic properties with their performances? -- The Goodman argument -- Answering the Goodman argument -- 4. Authenticity in musical performance -- Introduction -- Authenticity in the arts -- Three notions of historically authentic performance -- 5. Challenges to the classical paradigm in music -- Introduction : the classical paradigm in the performing arts -- The scope of the paradigm in classical music -- Jazz, Rock, and the classical paradigm -- Non-western music and the classical paradigm -- 6. The scope of the classical paradigm : theater, dance, and literature -- Introduction : Berthold and Magda go to the theater -- Theatrical performances and works -- Challenges to the classical paradigm in theater -- Dance and the classical paradigm -- the novel as performable work? -- Performance as art: -- 7. Performances as artworks -- Introduction : Spontaneous performance in the arts -- The artistic status of performances outside the classical paradigm -- The artistic status of performances within the classical paradigm -- 8. Elements of performance I : Improvisation and rehearsal -- Introduction -- The nature of Improvisation -- Improvisation and performable works : three models -- Improvisation and recording -- The place of rehearsal in the performing arts -- 9. Elements of performance II : Audience and embodiment -- Can there be artistic performance without an audience? -- Audience response -- The embodied performer and the mirroring receiver -- 10. Performance art and the performing arts -- Introduction -- Some puzzling cases -- What is performance art? -- When do works of performance art involve artistic performances? -- Performance as art : a final case.