Expressiveness in music performance : empirical approaches across styles and cultures : empirical approaches across styles and cultures

## Abstract What does it mean to be expressive in music performance in diverse historical and cultural domains? What are the means at the disposal of a performer in various time periods and musical practice conventions? And what are the conceptualizations of expression and the roles of performers that shape expressive performance? For the first time, a wide variety of perspectives are assembled in one volume investigating expressiveness in performance in various styles and cultures, including the ways in which the improvisations of Louis Armstrong, studio-fashioned electronic dance music, and the songs of Bedzan Pygmies can be considered expressive. The volume is unique in combining historical, systematic, computational, and phenomenological approaches to performance, and in including empirical investigations of western and non-western classical music as well as western and non-western popular and folk music. The highlighted conceptualizations and materializations of expressiveness in performance are as diverse as one would hope them to be. More awareness of and focus on oral traditions and player interaction are needed for performance research to break away from the dogma of notation. While this challenges existing methods, computational and empirical approaches are nevertheless not only crucial, but also may become central to furthering our understanding of what makes music performance expressive. 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. Reception And Aesthetics Of Western Classical Music Performance -- Philosophical Reflections On Expressive Music Performance / Mine Doğantan-dack -- The Notion Of Expression In Music Criticism / Elena Alessandri -- Heuristics For Expressive Performance / Daniel Leech-wilkinson And Helen M. Prior -- Commercial Sound Recordings And Trends In Expressive Music Performance : Why Should Experimental Researchers Pay Attention? / Dorottya Fabian -- Expressiveness In Historical Perspective : Nineteenth-century Ideals And Practices / David Milsom And Neal Peres Da Costa -- Expressive Performance In Contemporary Concert Music / Eric Clarke And Mark Doffman -- Expressiveness Across Styles And Cultures -- Understanding Performance Expression In Popular Music Recordings / Nicola Dibben -- Expressiveness In Jazz Performance : Prosody And Rhythm / William R. Bauer -- Expressiveness In Funk / Richard Ashley --^ Audience Response And Expressive Pitch Inflections In A Live Recording Of Legendary Singer Kesar Bai Kerkar / Wim Van Der Meer -- Temporal Variation In Singing As Interplay Between Speech And Music In Estonian Songs / Pärtel Lippus And Jaan Ross -- Expressiveness In The Performance Of Bedzan Pygmies' Vocal Polyphonies : When The Same Is Never The Same / Fabrice Marandola -- Models And Quantifications Of Expressive Performance Of Western Classical Music -- Quantitative Methods : Motion Analysis, Audio Analysis, And Continuous Response Techniques / Werner Goebel, Simon Dixon, And Emery Schubert -- Using Computational Models Of Music Performance To Model Stylistic Variations / Anders Friberg And Erica Bisesi -- Ensemble Performance : Interpersonal Alignment Of Musical Expression / Peter Keller -- A Taxonomy Of Listeners' Judgements Of Expressiveness In Music Performance / Emery Schubert And Dorottya Fabian --^ Training Expressive Performance By Means Of Visual Feedback : Existing And Potential Applications Of Performance Measurement Techniques / Renee Timmers And Makiko Sadakata -- Prospectives -- Implications For Music Studies / Nicholas Cook -- Implications For Cognitive Studies Of Musical Expressiveness / Catherine J. Stevens -- Implications For Ethnomusicology / Jonathan P. J. Stock -- Implications For Empirical Expressive Music Performance Research / Jane W. Davidson -- Implications For Education / Aaron Williamon. Edited By Dorottya Fabian, Renee Timmers, Emery Schubert. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "What does it mean to be expressive in music performance across diverse historical and cultural domains? What are the means at the disposal of a performer in various time periods and musical practice conventions? What are the conceptualisations of expression and the roles of performers that shape expressive performance? Expressiveness in Music Performance brings together research from a range of disciplines that use diverse methodologies to provide new perspectives and formulate answers to these questions about the meaning, means, and contextualization of expressive performance in music. The contributors to this book explore expressiveness in music performance in four interlinked parts. Starting with the philosophical and historical underpinnings crucially relevant for western classical musical performance it then reaches out to cross-cultural issues and finally focuses the attention on various specific problems, including the teaching of expressive music performance skills. The overviews provide a focused and comprehensive account of the current state of research as well as new developments and a prospective of future directions. This is a valuable new book for those in the fields of music, music psychology, and music education"--Page 4 of cover What does it mean to be expressive in music performance across diverse historical and cultural domains? What are the means at the disposal of a performer in various time periods and musical practice conventions? What are the conceptualisations of expression and the roles of performers that shape expressive performance? This book brings together research from a range of disciplines that use diverse methodologies to provide new perspectives and formulate answers to these questions about the meaning, means, and contextualisation of expressive performance in music. The contributors to this book explore expressiveness in music performance in four interlinked parts. Starting with the philosophical and historical underpinnings crucially relevant for Western classical musical performance it then reaches out to cross-cultural issues and finally focuses the attention on various specific problems, including the teaching of expressive music performance skills. The overviews provide a focussed and comprehensive account of the current state of research as well as new developments and a prospective of future directions. This is a valuable new book for those in the fields of music, music psychology, and music education.