The craft of musical performance
Skilled Practice in Collaboration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2406308 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Payne (0000-0003-2109-8126, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 107-122 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Geographies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-4740 • E-ISSN: 1477-0881 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1474474016684126 |
| OpenAlex | W2596850729 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
This article examines the nature of skilled practice within two settings of musical performance, the rehearsal and the compositional workshop. Drawing primarily on the work of Richard Sennett and Tim Ingold, I suggest that a characterisation of musical performance as a craft practice attends to the development of skill and expertise through the performer's physical and everyday encounters with the world and provokes a reconsideration of the dimensions of performance that might otherwise be taken for granted. The first case study addresses rhythmic coordination during a rehearsal of Four Duets for clarinet and piano (2012), composed by Edmund Finnis for Mark Simpson and Víkingur Ólafsson, and the second traces the development of instrumental techniques by composer Evan Johnson and performer Carl Rosman as they collaborate on a new work for historical basset clarinet, 'indolentiae ars', a medium to be kept (2015). The article makes the case for skilled practice as an improvisatory interplay between performers and the meshwork of people, objects, histories and processes which they inhabit
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Craft · Dynamics (music · Improvisation · Musical · Musical form · Pedagogy · Performance Practice · Performing arts · Piano · Sociology · Visual arts · History · Musicians’ Health and Performance · Musicology and Musical Analysis
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |