... practice'.¹

One important source for the notion of `thinking through practice' is the thinking of Art historian and curator Sarat Maharaj. His introductory paper for the Knowledge Lab at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin 2005 (in which both authors participated) was entitled `Thinking Through Performance' and discussed how various modes of `thinking through' could function as a methodology for the creation of new knowledge in the arts. We believe that the way we use the term in the present paper makes a slightly different use of the notion of `thinking through': in the Knowledge Lab, `thinking through' referred to a mode of studying artistic practice, whereas we use the notion to describe processes within artistic practice itself. One could argue that our study gives further confirmation to the methodology suggested by Maharaj for the Knowledge Lab.

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... work²

This is not to say that performances cannot be more or less true to the instructions in the score, or to the tradition, and that the performance itself should not be accessible for critical consideration.

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... aside³

It has been extensively debated elsewhere, see footnote 8 of [Nattiez, 1989, p. 35] for a list of references

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... drawn⁴

For an in depth description of the empirical studies performed see [Frisk and Östersjö, 2006].

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