Floris Schuiling
Biographic Data
| ID | 1077772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Floris Schuiling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Floris |
| FAMILY NAME | Schuiling |
| SIGNATURE | SCHUILING F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Talking Scores and the Dismediation of Music Notation
In the 1990s, specialized libraries in the Netherlands developed an audio-based form of notation known as “talking scores” to be used as an assistive technology for blind and visually impaired musicians. A talking score, similar to the audiobooks on which it was based, narrates the information found in staff notation that would otherwise be accessed visually. The spoken instructions are divided into fragments and alternated with audio examples. T…
Music As Extended Agency
This article presents results from fieldwork with two groups of improvisers using different forms of notation in their creative practice. Such practices raise fundamental questions about the relation of notation to performance. Drawing on theories of entextualization in linguistic anthropology, I argue that, contrary to many arguments for a performative understanding of music, performance is partly about creating something that has an identifiabl…
(Re-)Assembling Notations in the Performance of Early Music
This article draws on fieldwork observations of a vocal ensemble specialised in early music, describing the role of historical manuscripts in their creative process. It pursues two closely related questions: that of the status of the musical work as an agent of historical authenticity, and the type of creativity involved in this process of research, rehearsal, and performance. As such, it provides critical reflection on the use of concepts of mat…
Notation Cultures
The ubiquity and diversity of notational practices in music suggest that notation is a significant part of human beings' musicking behaviour. However, it is difficult to address its function since the usual conception of notation in music scholarship is at odds with studying performance in the first place. This article presents a methodological outline for an ethnomusicology of music notation by investigating the musicality of notation not in ter…
The Textility of Marking
Musicology’s performative turn was formulated in opposition to the disciplinary dominance of music notation in favour of a focus on the creativity of performers. However, scores are a central part of many musicians’ creative work, and a complete conception of creativity in performance should take this centrality into account. This article investigates performers’ uses of notation, particularly annotation, in both composed and improvised musical p…
The Instant Composers Pool
This article relates the recent development of a “relational musicology” to debates about participatory art and relational aesthetics. I present results from an ethnographic study of the Dutch improvising music collective the Instant Composers Pool, founded in 1967 and still performing. With a background in jazz, experimental music and performance art, this group developed an improvisatory musical practice in which musical notations are freely us…
Notation Cultures
The ubiquity and diversity of notational practices in music suggest that notation is a significant part of human beings' musicking behaviour. However, it is difficult to address its function since the usual conception of notation in music scholarship is at odds with studying performance in the first place. This article presents a methodological outline for an ethnomusicology of music notation by investigating the musicality of notation not in ter…
The Textility of Marking
Musicology’s performative turn was formulated in opposition to the disciplinary dominance of music notation in favour of a focus on the creativity of performers. However, scores are a central part of many musicians’ creative work, and a complete conception of creativity in performance should take this centrality into account. This article investigates performers’ uses of notation, particularly annotation, in both composed and improvised musical p…
(Re-)Assembling Notations in the Performance of Early Music
This article draws on fieldwork observations of a vocal ensemble specialised in early music, describing the role of historical manuscripts in their creative process. It pursues two closely related questions: that of the status of the musical work as an agent of historical authenticity, and the type of creativity involved in this process of research, rehearsal, and performance. As such, it provides critical reflection on the use of concepts of mat…
The Instant Composers Pool
This article relates the recent development of a “relational musicology” to debates about participatory art and relational aesthetics. I present results from an ethnographic study of the Dutch improvising music collective the Instant Composers Pool, founded in 1967 and still performing. With a background in jazz, experimental music and performance art, this group developed an improvisatory musical practice in which musical notations are freely us…
The Instant Composers Pool
This article relates the recent development of a “relational musicology” to debates about participatory art and relational aesthetics. I present results from an ethnographic study of the Dutch improvising music collective the Instant Composers Pool, founded in 1967 and still performing. With a background in jazz, experimental music and performance art, this group developed an improvisatory musical practice in which musical notations are freely us…
The Textility of Marking
Musicology’s performative turn was formulated in opposition to the disciplinary dominance of music notation in favour of a focus on the creativity of performers. However, scores are a central part of many musicians’ creative work, and a complete conception of creativity in performance should take this centrality into account. This article investigates performers’ uses of notation, particularly annotation, in both composed and improvised musical p…
Notation Cultures
The ubiquity and diversity of notational practices in music suggest that notation is a significant part of human beings' musicking behaviour. However, it is difficult to address its function since the usual conception of notation in music scholarship is at odds with studying performance in the first place. This article presents a methodological outline for an ethnomusicology of music notation by investigating the musicality of notation not in ter…
(Re-)Assembling Notations in the Performance of Early Music
This article draws on fieldwork observations of a vocal ensemble specialised in early music, describing the role of historical manuscripts in their creative process. It pursues two closely related questions: that of the status of the musical work as an agent of historical authenticity, and the type of creativity involved in this process of research, rehearsal, and performance. As such, it provides critical reflection on the use of concepts of mat…
Music As Extended Agency
This article presents results from fieldwork with two groups of improvisers using different forms of notation in their creative practice. Such practices raise fundamental questions about the relation of notation to performance. Drawing on theories of entextualization in linguistic anthropology, I argue that, contrary to many arguments for a performative understanding of music, performance is partly about creating something that has an identifiabl…
Talking Scores and the Dismediation of Music Notation
In the 1990s, specialized libraries in the Netherlands developed an audio-based form of notation known as “talking scores” to be used as an assistive technology for blind and visually impaired musicians. A talking score, similar to the audiobooks on which it was based, narrates the information found in staff notation that would otherwise be accessed visually. The spoken instructions are divided into fragments and alternated with audio examples. T…
Art (5 works) · Musical (5 works) · Musical notation (5 works) · Notation (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Music Technology and Sound Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works)