Investigating Musical Performance

Author : Gianmario Borio,Giovanni Giuriati,Alessandro Cecchi,Marco Lutzu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429649110

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Investigating Musical Performance by Gianmario Borio,Giovanni Giuriati,Alessandro Cecchi,Marco Lutzu Pdf

Investigating Musical Performance considers the wide range of perspectives on musical performance made tangible by the cross-disciplinary studies of the last decades and encourages a comparison and revision of theoretical and analytical paradigms. The chapters present different approaches to this multi-layered phenomenon, including the results of significant research projects. The complex nature of musical performance is revealed within each section which either suggests aspects of dialogue and contiguity or discusses divergences between theoretical models and perspectives. Part I elaborates on the history, current trends and crucial aspects of the study of musical performance; Part II is devoted to the development of theoretical models, highlighting sharply distinguished positions; Part III explores the relationship between sign and sound in score-based performances; finally, the focus of Part IV centres on gesture considered within different traditions of musicmaking. Three extra chapters by the editors complement Parts I and III and can be accessed via the online Routledge Music Research Portal. The volume shows actual and possible connections between topics, problems, analytical methods and theories, thereby reflecting the wealth of stimuli offered by research on the musical cultures of our times.

Author : Ioulia Papageorgi,Graham Welch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317185260

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Advanced Musical Performance: Investigations in Higher Education Learning by Ioulia Papageorgi,Graham Welch Pdf

To reach the highest standards of instrumental performance, several years of sustained and focused learning are required. This requires perseverance, commitment and opportunities to learn and practise, often in a collective musical environment. This book brings together a wide range of enlightening current psychological and educational research to offer deeper insights into the mosaic of factors and related experiences that combine to nurture (and sometimes hinder) advanced musical performance. Each of the book's four sections focus on one aspect of music performance and learning: musics in higher education and beyond; musical journeys and educational reflections; performance learning; and developing expertise and professionalism. Although each chapter within its home section offers a particular focus, there is an underlying conception across all the book’s contents of the achievability of advanced musical performance and of the important nurturing role that higher education can play, particularly if policy and practice are evidence-based and draw on the latest international research findings. The narrative offers an insight into the world of advanced musicians, detailing their learning journeys and the processes involved in their quest for the development of expertise and professionalism. It is the first book of its kind to consider performance learning in higher education across a variety of musical genres, including classical, jazz, popular and folk musics. The editors have invited an international community of leading scholars and performance practitioners to contribute to this publication, which draws on meticulous research and critical practice. This collection is an essential resource for all musicians, educators, researchers and policy makers who share our interest in promoting the development of advanced performance skills and professionalism.

Author : Aaron (Professor of Performance Science Williamon, Professor of Performance Science Royal College of Music),Professor of Performance Science Aaron Williamon,Associate Director of Research Jane Ginsborg,Jane (Associate Director of Research Ginsborg, Associate Director of Research Royal Northern College of Music),Reader in Performance Science Rosie Perkins,Rosie (Reader in Performance Science Perkins, Reader in Performance Science Royal College of Music),George (Research Associate in Performance Science Waddell, Research Associate in Performance Science Royal College of Music),Research Associate in Performance Science George Waddell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198714545

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Performing Music Research by Aaron (Professor of Performance Science Williamon, Professor of Performance Science Royal College of Music),Professor of Performance Science Aaron Williamon,Associate Director of Research Jane Ginsborg,Jane (Associate Director of Research Ginsborg, Associate Director of Research Royal Northern College of Music),Reader in Performance Science Rosie Perkins,Rosie (Reader in Performance Science Perkins, Reader in Performance Science Royal College of Music),George (Research Associate in Performance Science Waddell, Research Associate in Performance Science Royal College of Music),Research Associate in Performance Science George Waddell Pdf

Performing Music Research is a comprehensive guide to planning, conducting, analyzing, and communicating research in music performance. The book examines the approaches and strategies that underpin research in music education, psychology, and performance science.

Author : Dorottya Fabian
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783741526

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A Musicology of Performance by Dorottya Fabian Pdf

This book examines the nature of musical performance. In it, Dorottya Fabian explores the contributions and limitations of some of these approaches to performance, be they theoretical, cultural, historical, perceptual, or analytical. Through a detailed investigation of recent recordings of J. S. Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, she demonstrates that music performance functions as a complex dynamical system. Only by crossing disciplinary boundaries, therefore, can we put the aural experience into words. A Musicology of Performance provides a model for such a method by adopting Deleuzian concepts and various empirical and interdisciplinary procedures. Fabian provides a case study in the repertoire, while presenting new insights into the state of baroque performance practice at the turn of the twenty-first century. Through its wealth of audio examples, tables, and graphs, the book offers both a sensory and a scholarly account of musical performance. These interactive elements map the connections between historically informed and mainstream performance styles, considering them in relation to broader cultural trends, violin schools, and individual artistic trajectories. A Musicology of Performance is a must read for academics and post-graduate students and an essential reference point for the study of music performance, the early music movement, and Bach’s opus.

Author : Daphne Leong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190653574

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Performing Knowledge by Daphne Leong Pdf

Author : Karen Burland,Stephanie Pitts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317158974

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Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience by Karen Burland,Stephanie Pitts Pdf

Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience explores the processes and experiences of attending live music events from the initial decision to attend through to audience responses and memories of a performance after it has happened. The book brings together international researchers who consider the experience of being an audience member from a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives. Whether enjoying a drink at a jazz gig, tweeting at a pop concert or suppressing a cough at a classical recital, audience experience is affected by motivation, performance quality, social atmosphere and group and personal identity. Drawing on the implications of these experiences and attitudes, the authors consider the question of what makes an audience, and argue convincingly for the practical and academic value of that question.

Author : Gianmario Borio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000619126

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The Mediations of Music by Gianmario Borio Pdf

Adorno believed that a circular relationship was established between immediacy and mediation. Should we now say that this model with its clear Hegelian influence is outdated? Or does it need some theoretical integration? This volume addresses these questions by covering the performance of music, its technological reproduction and its modes of communication – in particular, pedagogy and dissemination through the media. Each of the book’s four parts deal with different aspects of the mediation process. The contributing authors outline the problematic moments in Adorno’s reasoning but also highlight its potential. In many chapters the pole of immediacy is explicitly brought into play, its different manifestations often proving to be fundamental for the understanding of mediation processes. The prime reference sources are Adorno’s Current of Music, Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction and Composing for the Films. Critical readings of these texts are supplemented by reflections on performance studies, media theories, sociology of listening, post-structuralism and other contiguous research fields.

Author : Dianna Kenny
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191620997

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The Psychology of Music Performance Anxiety by Dianna Kenny Pdf

Why are some performers exhilarated and energized about performing in public, while others feel a crushing sense of fear and dread, and experience public performance as an overwhelming challenge that must be endured? What are the factors that produce such vastly different performance experiences? Why have consummate artists like Frederic Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pablo Cassals, Tatiana Troyanos, and Barbra Streisand experienced such intense music performance anxiety? This is a disorder that can affect musicians across a range of genres and of all standards. Some of the 'cures' musicians resort to can be harmful to their health and detrimental to their playing. This is the first rigorous exposition of music performance anxiety. In this groundbreaking work, Dianna Kenny draws on a range of disciplines including psychology, philosophy, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and performance theory in order to explain the many facets of music performance anxiety that have emerged in the empirical and clinical literature. She identifies some unifying guiding principles that will enhance our understanding of the condition and guide researchers and clinicians in the development of effective treatments. The book provides a detailed conceptual framework for the study of music performance anxiety and a review of the empirical and clinical research on the anxiety disorders. In addition it presents a thorough analysis of the concepts related to music performance anxiety, its epidemiology, and theories and therapies that may be useful in understanding and treating the condition. The voices of musicians are clearly heard throughout the book and in the final two chapters, we hear directly from musicians about how they experience it and what they do to manage it. This book will lay a firm foundation for theorizing music performance anxiety and be of enormous value interest to those in the fields of music and music education, clinical psychology, and performance studies.

Author : Tina K Ramnarine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317969563

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Musical Performance in the Diaspora by Tina K Ramnarine Pdf

This book illustrates how ethnographic investigation of musical performances might contribute to the analysis of diaspora. It embraces diverse examples such as 'mourning and cultures of survival' amongst Aboriginal and Jewish communities in Australia, remembering a Kazakh 'homeland' in Western Mongolia, celebrating Diwali in New Zealand and the circulation of musical performances in Mozambique, Portugal and the UK. Some of the topics discussed in Musical Performance in the Diaspora include: the expression and shaping of diasporic and postcolonial identities through performance musical memory in diasporic contexts the geographies of performance the politics of 'new' forms of diasporic music-making. This book presents a rich array of theoretical approaches and wide ranging ethnographic case studies to reconsider and challenge discourses that have favoured uncritical notions of diasporic 'hybridity' and to broaden current analyses of performance in the diaspora.

Author : Karin S. Hendricks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197611678

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The Oxford Handbook of Care in Music Education by Karin S. Hendricks Pdf

The notion of care is at times misunderstood in the context of music education--equated simply with kindness or associated with lowered expectations--and is often dismissed without consideration of its full value to music learning. When viewed through a student "deficit" perspective, concepts of care might evoke unnecessary pity or a sense of rescue, thereby positioning teachers and learners in a superior/inferior relationship that may be unhealthy and unhelpful to either person. Furthermore, many well-meaning approaches to care emphasize a unidirectional relationship from teacher to student, discounting the ways in which a teacher also continues to learn and develop. A more empowering conceptualization of care in music education involves sharing--sharing experience, sharing passion, sharing excitement, sharing goals, and sharing humanness. The Oxford Handbook of Care in Music Education addresses ways in which music teachers and students interact as co-learners and forge authentic relationships with one another through shared music-making. Concepts of care addressed in the handbook stem from philosophies of relationship, feminist ethics, musical meaningfulness, and compassionate music teaching. These essays highlight the essence of authentic relationships and shared experiences between teachers and learners, extending previous conceptions of care to meet the needs of contemporary music learners and the teachers who care for, about, and with them.

Author : Gary E. McPherson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191061882

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The Child as Musician by Gary E. McPherson Pdf

The new edition of The Child as Musician: A Handbook of Musical Development celebrates the richness and diversity of the many different ways in which children can engage in and interact with music. It presents theory - both cutting edge and classic - in an accessible way for readers by surveying research concerned with the development and acquisition of musical skills. The focus is on musical development from conception to late adolescences, although the bulk of the coverage concentrates on the period when children are able to begin formal music instruction (from around age 3) until the final year of formal schooling (around age 18). There are many conceptions of how musical development might take place, just as there are for other disciplines and areas of human potential. Consequently, the publication highlights the diversity in current literature dealing with how we think about and conceptualise children's musical development. Each of the authors has searched for a better and more effective way to explain in their own words and according to their own perspective, the remarkable ways in which children engage with music. In the field of educational psychology there are a number of publications that survey the issues surrounding child and adolescent development. Some of the more innovative present research and theories, and their educational implications, in a style that stresses the fundamental interplay among the biological, environmental, social and cultural influences at each stage of a child's development. Until now, no similar overview has existed for child and adolescent development in the field of music. The Child as Musician addresses this imbalance, and is essential for those in the fields of child development, music education, and music cognition.

Author : John Rink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521619394

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The Practice of Performance by John Rink Pdf

The twelve essays in this volume reflect the most important trends in the study of musical performance. Three areas are investigated: the psychology of performance, the semantics of performance, and the relation between performance and analysis. The first section broaches fundamental issues such as text, expression, musical motion and the role of practice in the acquisition of expertise. The next four chapters address the shaping of structure and the projection of meaning in performance, while the last four consider performance as analytical paradigm, as dramatic narrative, as act of criticism, as temporal process. Among the distinguished international authorship are many accomplished performers whose practical experience ensures that the book contains vital and stimulating insights into the interpretation of music, and that it will speak to a wide musical audience.

Author : John Rink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521788625

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Musical Performance by John Rink Pdf

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Author : Lori A. Burns,Stan Hawkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501342349

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis by Lori A. Burns,Stan Hawkins Pdf

Music videos promote popular artists in cultural forms that circulate widely across social media networks. With the advent of YouTube in 2005 and the proliferation of handheld technologies and social networking sites, the music video has become available to millions worldwide, and continues to serve as a fertile platform for the debate of issues and themes in popular culture. This volume of essays serves as a foundational handbook for the study and interpretation of the popular music video, with the specific aim of examining the industry contexts, cultural concepts, and aesthetic materials that videos rely upon in order to be both intelligible and meaningful. Easily accessible to viewers in everyday life, music videos offer profound cultural interventions and negotiations while traversing a range of media forms. From a variety of unique perspectives, the contributors to this volume undertake discussions that open up new avenues for exploring the creative changes and developments in music video production. With chapters that address music video authorship, distribution, cultural representations, mediations, aesthetics, and discourses, this study signals a major initiative to provide a deeper understanding of the intersecting and interdisciplinary approaches that are invoked in the analysis of this popular and influential musical form.

Author : Dorottya Fabian,Renee Timmers,Emery Schubert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199659647

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Expressiveness in Music Performance by Dorottya Fabian,Renee Timmers,Emery Schubert Pdf

This book brings together researchers from a range of disciplines that use diverse methodologies to provide new perspectives and formulate answers to questions about the meaning, means, and contextualisation of expressive performance in music.