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.
CONTENTS
List of Tables
List of Figures and Score Examples
List of Audio Examples
Notes on contributors
Notes and Acknowledgments
Dorottya Fabian, Renee Timmers and Emery Schubert: Introduction
PART 1: Reception and aesthetics of Western Classical music performance
1 Mine Dogantan-Dack: Philosophical Reflections on Music Performance
2 Elena Alessandri: The notion of expression in music criticism
3 Daniel Leech-Wilkinson and Helen Prior: Heuristics for expressive performance
4 Dorottya Fabian: Commercial sound recordings and trends in expressive music performance: Why should experimental researchers pay attention?
5 Neal Peres da Costa and David Milsom: Expressiveness in historical perspective: Nineteenth-century ideals and practices
6 Eric Clarke and Mark Doffman: Expressive performance in contemporary concert music
PART 2: Expressiveness across styles
7 Nicola Dibben: Understanding performance expression in popular music recordings
8 William Bauer: Expressiveness in Jazz Performance: Prosody and Rhythm
9 Richard Ashley: Expressiveness in Funk
10 Wim van der Meer: Audience response and expressive pitch inflections in a life recording of legendary singer Kesar Bai Kerkar
11 Partel Lippus and Jaan Ross: Temporal variation in singing as interplay between speech and music in Estonian songs
12 Fabrice Marandola: Expressiveness in the performance of Bedzan Pygmies' vocal polyphonies: When the same is never the same
PART 3: Models and quantifications of expressive performance of western-classical m
13 Werner Goebl, Simon Dixon, and Emery Schubert: Quantitative methods: Motion analysis, audio analysis, and continuous response techniques
14 Anders Friberg and Erica Bisesi: Using computational models of music performance to model stylistic variations
15 Peter Keller: Ensemble performance
16 Emery Schubert and Dorottya Fabian: A taxonomy of listeners' judgments of expressiveness in music performance
17 Renee Timmers and Makiko Sadakata: Training expressive performance by means of visual feedback: existing and potential applications of performance measurement techniques
PART 4: Prospective
18 Nicholas Cook: Implications for musicology
19 Catherine J. Stevens: Implications for cognitive studies of musical expressiveness
20 Jonathan Stock: Implications for ethnomusicology
21 Jane Davidson: Implications for empirical performance research
22 Aaron Williamon: Implications for education
23 Dorottya Fabian, Renee Timmers and Emery Schubert: Afterthought