1. The state of play in musical performance studies ; 2. Impersonating the music in performance ; 3. The work of the performer ; 4. Moments of truth: performing musicology ; 5. Translating musical meaning: the performer as narrator ; 6. Authentic Chopin ; 7. From analysis to 'performer's analysis' ; 8. Playing in time ; 9. Analysing motif and gesture in performance ; 10. The (f)utility of performance analysis ; 11. Judging Chopin: an evaluation of musical experience ; 12. Between practice and theory: performance studies and/as artistic research