Abstract There are many ways in which a musical performance can be “bad,” but here the focus is on two: those performances that make you laugh, and those that make you angry. These forms of musical badness, however, are not primarily compositional deficits, but either (a) that the performer simply cannot competently deliver the music to their audience, inducing laughter, or (b) that the performer exhibits some form of disrespect, provoking anger. Such laughter or anger stems from failure of the expected relationship between a performer and their audience, that is, a social failure. After surveying a range of musical faults, the article examines the causes of laughter in general and in relation to some of examples of risible “bad” music. Similarly, the causes of social and moral anger in general are examined, and several cases of anger-inducing musical performances are presented. The article concludes with a consideration of the broader implications of these responses to “bad” music for theories of emotional expression in music, the relationship between aesthetic and moral judgments, and the centrality of musical performances as opposed to works in discussions of musical expression and value.

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两种“坏”的音乐表演：音乐错误和道德错误

摘要 音乐表演“糟糕”的方式有很多，但这里的重点是两种：让你发笑的表演和让你生气的表演。然而，这些形式的音乐缺陷主要不是作曲缺陷，而是（a）表演者根本无法胜任地将音乐传递给观众，引起笑声，或者（b）表演者表现出某种形式的不尊重，激起愤怒. 这种笑声或愤怒源于表演者与观众之间预期关系的失败，即社交失败。在调查了一系列音乐缺陷之后，本文研究了笑声的一般原因，并与一些可笑的“坏”音乐的例子有关。同样，对一般社会和道德愤怒的原因进行了检查，并介绍了几个引起愤怒的音乐表演案例。文章最后考虑了这些对“坏”音乐的反应对音乐情感表达理论的更广泛影响、审美和道德判断之间的关系，以及与讨论音乐表达和讨论的作品相比，音乐表演的中心地位。价值。