Jane Ginsborg
Biographic Data
| ID | 5873067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Ginsborg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Ginsborg |
| SIGNATURE | GINSBORG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Northern College of Music |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0297-1751 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Walking a fine line
The difficulties of navigating a freelance career in music have been well-documented, but women working in the historically masculine brass-playing world can experience additional disadvantages. As part of a wider project investigating issues of gender and gender inequality in UK brass playing, this paper explores the role of activism in the lives of female brass players. An interpretative phenomenological analysis was applied to data collected f…
Development and Validation of the Self-Regulated Learning in Music Practice Self-Report Scale (SRL-MP-SRS)
To practise effectively, musicians must engage in self-regulated learning (SRL) through a cyclical process of planning, execution, and reflection. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a new questionnaire that measures SRL in the context of music practice. We generated an item pool by adapting items from existing scales and revising them based on feedback from an expert panel. This pool was administered to 290 musicians, randomly …
A Brass-Playing Identity
Brass instruments have historically had a strong association with masculinity and have been played mostly by men. Although there have been pioneering women at various points during the twentieth century, women did not enter brass playing in significant numbers until the end of the century. Even now, women are in the minority across the current brass- playing cohort in the UK, and are extremely rare in some genres and some specific brass instrumen…
Validity testing of the Health Literacy Questionnaire on a sample of musicians in the United Kingdom
Efforts aimed at measuring health literacy among musicians are very recent. A better understanding of musicians’ health literacy can help educators, health professionals, organisations and relevant specialists address the needs of musicians more specifically. The aim was to assess scale reliability and model fit of the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) on a sample of UK-based musicians. We conducted a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to test …
Perception and learning of relative pitch by musicians using the vibrotactile mode
This study investigated the perception and learning of relative pitch using vibrotactile stimuli by musicians with and without a hearing impairment. Notes from C3 to B4 were presented to the fingertip and forefoot. Pre- and post-training tests in which 420 pairs of notes were presented randomly were carried out without any feedback to participants. After the pre-training test, 16 short training sessions were carried out over six weeks with 72 pai…
Recovery from memory failure when recalling a memorized performance
To perform reliably and confidently from memory, musicians must able to recover from mistakes and memory failures. We describe how an experienced singer (the second author) recovered from mistakes and gaps in recall as she periodically recalled the score of a piece of vocal music that she had memorized for public performance, writing out the music six times over a five-year period following the performance. Five years after the performance, the s…
Why Do Music Students Attend Counseling? A Longitudinal Study of Reasons in One UK Conservatoire
Music students in tertiary education struggle with a range of health-related problems. We investigated students’ self-referrals for counseling at a UK conservatoire to explore trends in students’ attendance at counseling sessions over time and identify their reasons for seeking and continuing to attend counseling. We conducted a secondary analysis of data collected from 645 students by two in-house counselors at the conservatoire between 2000 and…
Reciprocal auditory attenuation affects looking behaviour and playing level but not ensemble synchrony
Evidence suggests that musicians may be more susceptible to developing a hearing impairment due to increased exposure to loud sounds over the lifespan. Hearing impairments can affect musical performance behaviours, yet research suggests they do not significantly affect ensemble synchrony unless the hearing loss is severe or profound. This study investigated the effect of reduced auditory feedback on ensemble synchrony, looking behaviour and playi…
“The brilliance of perfection” or “pointless finish”? What virtuosity means to musicians
The concept of virtuosity has been explored by music historians and theorists from disciplines ranging from aesthetics and anthropology to semiotics. Its history goes back to ancient times, although it is often thought to culminate in the 19th century with Liszt and Paganini. Many historical sources quote well-known performers and composers but little is known as to how music students and professional musicians define virtuosity today, and what i…
Years of Escom
This reflection on the first 25 years of ESCOM’s activities is in two parts. In the first part we analyse the country and discipline spread of contributors to its journal Musicae Scientiae and its formal membership. In the second we address the choice of “cognitive sciences of music” as the initial focus of both Society and journal by comparing the topics of early meetings and publications with those that are current now. Journal contributors and…
Listener preference towards a real and emulated violin
An account is provided of a double-blind experiment in which musically trained and untrained participants listened to recordings of a real and emulated (virtual) violin and rated them according to their personal preference. Post-experiment the participants were also asked to identify which one was the real instrument. The emulated violin was developed by convolving the impulse response from an acoustic instrument with the output from an electric …
Violin mpulse esponse ength and erceptions of cceptability
The design, execution and analysis of a double-blind listening study is described, in which participants gave preference ratings for nine versions of the same piece of music, obtained by convolving violin impulse responses, of different length, with the original piece played on an electric instrument and stored in digital form. The original impulse response, with a length of 91.4 ms was measured from a Stradivarius violin and progressively degrad…
Rehearsal talk
The cognitive and social processes underlying musical and social collaboration were explored in a small-scale study of two professional and two student singer-pianist duos. Each of the eight participants rehearsed one song with his or her regular partner and a second song with a new partner of the same level of expertise; four participants rehearsed a third song with a new partner of the other level of expertise. Their talk during rehearsal was a…
Backwards and forwards in space and time
Recall of complex non-verbal motor sequences, such as contemporary dance, provides insights into the structure and mechanics of human memory — specifically, cues and associations in long-term memory (LTM). In this study, four dancers recalled material — eight exercises in the form of short dances — that they had not performed for between three and 31 years. The dancers initially recalled the exercises in silence, although each one had been learne…
Going Outside Together
This paper reports some of the findings of research which has investigated the inclusion of disabled children in six primary school playgrounds in Yorkshire, in England. Initially the paper sets the policy context before moving on to discuss the importance of play for children, especially in a primary school setting and particularly for disabled children in such a setting. The inclusion of disabled children is discussed with respect to a series o…
Going Outside Together
This paper reports some of the findings of research which has investigated the inclusion of disabled children in six primary school playgrounds in Yorkshire, in England. Initially the paper sets the policy context before moving on to discuss the importance of play for children, especially in a primary school setting and particularly for disabled children in such a setting. The inclusion of disabled children is discussed with respect to a series o…
Backwards and forwards in space and time
Recall of complex non-verbal motor sequences, such as contemporary dance, provides insights into the structure and mechanics of human memory — specifically, cues and associations in long-term memory (LTM). In this study, four dancers recalled material — eight exercises in the form of short dances — that they had not performed for between three and 31 years. The dancers initially recalled the exercises in silence, although each one had been learne…
Going Outside Together
This paper reports some of the findings of research which has investigated the inclusion of disabled children in six primary school playgrounds in Yorkshire, in England. Initially the paper sets the policy context before moving on to discuss the importance of play for children, especially in a primary school setting and particularly for disabled children in such a setting. The inclusion of disabled children is discussed with respect to a series o…
Backwards and forwards in space and time
Recall of complex non-verbal motor sequences, such as contemporary dance, provides insights into the structure and mechanics of human memory — specifically, cues and associations in long-term memory (LTM). In this study, four dancers recalled material — eight exercises in the form of short dances — that they had not performed for between three and 31 years. The dancers initially recalled the exercises in silence, although each one had been learne…
Rehearsal talk
The cognitive and social processes underlying musical and social collaboration were explored in a small-scale study of two professional and two student singer-pianist duos. Each of the eight participants rehearsed one song with his or her regular partner and a second song with a new partner of the same level of expertise; four participants rehearsed a third song with a new partner of the other level of expertise. Their talk during rehearsal was a…
“The brilliance of perfection” or “pointless finish”? What virtuosity means to musicians
The concept of virtuosity has been explored by music historians and theorists from disciplines ranging from aesthetics and anthropology to semiotics. Its history goes back to ancient times, although it is often thought to culminate in the 19th century with Liszt and Paganini. Many historical sources quote well-known performers and composers but little is known as to how music students and professional musicians define virtuosity today, and what i…
Years of Escom
This reflection on the first 25 years of ESCOM’s activities is in two parts. In the first part we analyse the country and discipline spread of contributors to its journal Musicae Scientiae and its formal membership. In the second we address the choice of “cognitive sciences of music” as the initial focus of both Society and journal by comparing the topics of early meetings and publications with those that are current now. Journal contributors and…
Listener preference towards a real and emulated violin
An account is provided of a double-blind experiment in which musically trained and untrained participants listened to recordings of a real and emulated (virtual) violin and rated them according to their personal preference. Post-experiment the participants were also asked to identify which one was the real instrument. The emulated violin was developed by convolving the impulse response from an acoustic instrument with the output from an electric …
Violin mpulse esponse ength and erceptions of cceptability
The design, execution and analysis of a double-blind listening study is described, in which participants gave preference ratings for nine versions of the same piece of music, obtained by convolving violin impulse responses, of different length, with the original piece played on an electric instrument and stored in digital form. The original impulse response, with a length of 91.4 ms was measured from a Stradivarius violin and progressively degrad…
Reciprocal auditory attenuation affects looking behaviour and playing level but not ensemble synchrony
Evidence suggests that musicians may be more susceptible to developing a hearing impairment due to increased exposure to loud sounds over the lifespan. Hearing impairments can affect musical performance behaviours, yet research suggests they do not significantly affect ensemble synchrony unless the hearing loss is severe or profound. This study investigated the effect of reduced auditory feedback on ensemble synchrony, looking behaviour and playi…
Perception and learning of relative pitch by musicians using the vibrotactile mode
This study investigated the perception and learning of relative pitch using vibrotactile stimuli by musicians with and without a hearing impairment. Notes from C3 to B4 were presented to the fingertip and forefoot. Pre- and post-training tests in which 420 pairs of notes were presented randomly were carried out without any feedback to participants. After the pre-training test, 16 short training sessions were carried out over six weeks with 72 pai…
Recovery from memory failure when recalling a memorized performance
To perform reliably and confidently from memory, musicians must able to recover from mistakes and memory failures. We describe how an experienced singer (the second author) recovered from mistakes and gaps in recall as she periodically recalled the score of a piece of vocal music that she had memorized for public performance, writing out the music six times over a five-year period following the performance. Five years after the performance, the s…
Why Do Music Students Attend Counseling? A Longitudinal Study of Reasons in One UK Conservatoire
Music students in tertiary education struggle with a range of health-related problems. We investigated students’ self-referrals for counseling at a UK conservatoire to explore trends in students’ attendance at counseling sessions over time and identify their reasons for seeking and continuing to attend counseling. We conducted a secondary analysis of data collected from 645 students by two in-house counselors at the conservatoire between 2000 and…
A Brass-Playing Identity
Brass instruments have historically had a strong association with masculinity and have been played mostly by men. Although there have been pioneering women at various points during the twentieth century, women did not enter brass playing in significant numbers until the end of the century. Even now, women are in the minority across the current brass- playing cohort in the UK, and are extremely rare in some genres and some specific brass instrumen…
Validity testing of the Health Literacy Questionnaire on a sample of musicians in the United Kingdom
Efforts aimed at measuring health literacy among musicians are very recent. A better understanding of musicians’ health literacy can help educators, health professionals, organisations and relevant specialists address the needs of musicians more specifically. The aim was to assess scale reliability and model fit of the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) on a sample of UK-based musicians. We conducted a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to test …
Walking a fine line
The difficulties of navigating a freelance career in music have been well-documented, but women working in the historically masculine brass-playing world can experience additional disadvantages. As part of a wider project investigating issues of gender and gender inequality in UK brass playing, this paper explores the role of activism in the lives of female brass players. An interpretative phenomenological analysis was applied to data collected f…
Development and Validation of the Self-Regulated Learning in Music Practice Self-Report Scale (SRL-MP-SRS)
To practise effectively, musicians must engage in self-regulated learning (SRL) through a cyclical process of planning, execution, and reflection. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a new questionnaire that measures SRL in the context of music practice. We generated an item pool by adapting items from existing scales and revising them based on feedback from an expert panel. This pool was administered to 290 musicians, randomly …
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