Performance
Per`form´ance
PERFORMANCE. The act of doing something; the thing done is also called a
performance; as, Paul is exonerated from the obligation of his contract by
its performance.
2. When it contract has been made by parol, which, under the statute of
frauds and perjuries, could not be enforced, because it was not in writing,
and the party seeking to avoid it, has received the whole or a part
performance of such agreement, he cannot afterwards avoid it; 14 John. 15;
S. C. 1 John. Ch. R. 273; and such part performance will enable the other
party to prove it aliunde. 1 Pet. C. C. R. 380; 1 Rand. R. 165; 1 Blackf. R.
58; 2 Day, R. 255; 1 Desaus. R. 350; 5 Day, R. 67; 1 Binn. R. 218; 3 Paige,
R. 545; 1 John. Ch. R. 131, 146. Vide Specific performance.
Philharmonic concert,
accomplished fact,
accomplishment,
accordance,
achievement,
acquittal,
acquittance,
act,
acta,
acting,
action,
adherence,
administration,
adventure,
agency,
aping,
appearance,
attainment,
baccalaureate service,
band concert,
behavior,
benefit,
bill,
blow,
bringing to fruition,
buffoonery,
business,
cantando,
care,
carrying out,
celebration,
ceremonial,
ceremony,
chamber concert,
characterization,
commencement,
commission,
completion,
compliance,
concert,
conduct,
conformance,
conformity,
consummation,
convocation,
coup,
dealings,
debut,
deed,
demeanor,
demilegato,
deportment,
direction,
discharge,
dispatch,
display,
doing,
doings,
driving,
dumb show,
effectiveness,
effectuation,
efficacy,
effort,
embodiment,
empty formality,
enacting,
enactment,
endeavor,
engagement,
enterprise,
execution,
exercise,
exercises,
exhibit,
exhibition,
exploit,
exposition,
exposure,
expression,
fait accompli,
farewell performance,
feat,
fingering,
flesh show,
formal,
formality,
fruition,
fulfillment,
function,
functioning,
gag,
gest,
gig,
glissando,
go,
graduation,
graduation exercises,
ham,
hammy acting,
hand,
handiwork,
handling,
heed,
heeding,
hoke,
hokum,
imitation,
impersonation,
implementation,
inaugural,
inauguration,
incarnation,
initiation,
interpretation,
intonation,
job,
keeping,
legato,
liturgy,
management,
maneuver,
manipulation,
masquerade,
measure,
mezzo staccato,
mimesis,
mimicking,
mimicry,
miming,
mission accomplished,
move,
mummery,
music-making,
musical performance,
musical program,
observance,
observation,
occupation,
office,
opening,
operancy,
operation,
overacting,
overproduction,
overt act,
pantomime,
pantomiming,
parlando,
passage,
patter,
performing,
perpetration,
personation,
personification,
philharmonic,
pianism,
pizzicato,
play,
playacting,
playing,
pop concert,
pops,
popular concert,
portrayal,
posing,
practice,
premiere,
presentment,
proceeding,
productiveness,
program,
program of music,
projection,
prom,
promenade concert,
realization,
recital,
religious ceremony,
rendering,
rendition,
repercussion,
representation,
res gestae,
respect,
responsibility,
retrospective,
rite,
rite de passage,
rite of passage,
ritual,
rubato,
running,
satisfaction,
scene,
service,
service of music,
showing,
slapstick,
slur,
solemnity,
solemnization,
spiccato,
staccato,
stage business,
stage directions,
stage presence,
stage presentation,
steering,
step,
stroke,
stunt,
success,
swan song,
symphony concert,
taking a role,
theatrical performance,
thing,
thing done,
touch,
tour de force,
transaction,
tryout,
turn,
undertaking,
unfolding,
unfoldment,
unveiling,
varnishing day,
vernissage,
work,
working,
workings,
works