Performance Canon in Western Music: Ideologies of Conventional, Avant-Garde, and Authentic Music

This is an extensive overview of the performance practice, with the purpose to demonstrate that the recent attempts of “canonization” characterize not only Western compositions but also performance standards. I hold that canonization should be viewed as an organic property that organizes any market, since once a music product is placed on the market, the canonic hierarchy begins to organically form based on the supply/demand interaction.