Informed phrasing is a doctoral research project which aspires to form performative methods informing phrasing from both the cognitive and the Schenkerian views. A main objective of this project, is to shape the 'informing' process as performative, yet containing analytical and theoretical insights that alternatively would be reached in a non-performative manner . Therefore, the term Informed phrasing in this paper is referred as a performative process that involves analytical and cognitive inquiries which are made by and through the practice of musical performance. In this respect, I attempt in to incorporate analytical and theoretical fields into the performance processes and by that to transform those fields from theoretical terrains into performative methods. In order to fuse analytical methods and cognitive theories into musical performance in a performative manner, I must firstly introduce the concepts that allow those different terrains to relate to each other and to integrate into musical performance. These connections are only possible through the 'boundary objects' of these fields: reductions, universal structures, and classical improvisation. In this paper, I will present and discuss those boundary objects which relate the aforementioned terrains to each other and to musical performance. Thereafter, I will describe the integration of these boundary objects in the methodology of the Informed phrasing research project.
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