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Performance today / Nicholas Kenyon -- Political process, social structure, and musical performance in Europe since 1450 / William Weber -- The evidence / Robin Stowell -- The performer and the composer / Corey Jamason -- The teaching of performance / Natasha Loges and Colin Lawson -- Music and musical performance : histories in disjunction? / David Wright -- The ancient world / Eleonora Rocconi -- Performance before c. 1430 : an overview / John Haines -- Vocal performance before c. 1430 / Jeremy Summerly -- Instrumental performance before c. 1430 / Stefano Mengozzi -- Case study : Guillaume de Machaut, ballade 34, Quant Theseus/Ne quier veoir / John Haines -- Performance in the Renaissance : an overview / Jon Banks -- Vocal performance in the Renaissance / Timothy J. McGee -- Instrumental performance in the Renaissance / Keith Polk -- Case study : Seville Cathedral's music in performance, 1549-1599 / Owen Rees -- Performance in the seventeenth century : an overview / Tim Carter -- Vocal performance in the seventeenth century / Richard Wistreich -- Instrumental performance in the seventeenth century / David Ponsford -- Case study : Monteverdi, Vespers (1610) / Jonathan P. Wainwright -- Performance in the "long eighteenth century" : an overview / Simon McVeigh -- Vocal performance in the "long eighteenth century" / John Potter -- Instrumental performance in the "long eighteenth century" / Peter Walls -- Case study : Mozart, Symphonies in E flat major K543, G minor K550, and C major K551 / Colin Lawson -- Performance in the nineteenth century : an overview / Michael Musgrave -- Vocal performance in the nineteenth century / Will Crutchfield -- Instrumental performance in the nineteenth century / Ian Pace -- Case study : Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde / Robin Stowell -- Musical performance in the twentieth century and beyond : an overview / Stephen Cottrell -- Vocal performance in the twentieth century and beyond / Jane Manning and Anthony Payne -- Instrumental performance in the twentieth century and beyond / Roger Heaton -- Case study : Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gruppen für drei Orchester / William Mival -- The future? / Colin Lawson and Robin Stowell