This volume presents the papers of the International conference on music performance analysis held in Lucerne, Switzerland, on July 1 and 2, 2009. The first part of the book, entitled Five perspectives on Body and Soul , focuses on recorded versions of Johnny Green s iconic jazz standard Body and Soul by shedding light on the performance history of the tune. It contains papers by José Antonio Bowen, Martin Pfleiderer, Cynthia Folio / Alexander Brinkman, John Gunther, and Olivier Senn. The second part, entitled Methods of music performance analysis , addresses methodological issues for the analysis of performed music. The papers of Marc-Antoine Camp et al., Elena Alessandri, Matthias Arter, Richard Turner, Jürg Huber, and Claudia di Luzio discuss a variety of approaches and present Music Performance Studies as a thoroughly interdisciplinary field.
