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Together in Music: Coordination, expression, participation

Renee Timmers, Freya Bailes, and Helena Daffern

Abstract

Together in music develops insight into the musical ensemble as an intense form of teamwork, as finely coordinated joint action, and as an emotionally and socially rewarding experience that enables positive outcomes for wellbeing and development. By investigating processes related to group music-making at meso-, micro-, and macro-level, it offers a platform for synthesis across disciplinary and methodological approaches, and the definition of a new level of understanding that is holistic and considers interrelationships between levels of analysis. The book combines review chapters that summari ... More

Keywords: Book coordination, expression, ensemble performance, wellbeing, technology

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2021 Print ISBN-13: 9780198860761
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2021 DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198860761.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Renee Timmers, editor
Professor of Psychology of Music, Department of Music, The University of Sheffield

Freya Bailes, editor
Associate Professor in Music Psychology, School of Music, University of Leeds

Helena Daffern, editor
Associate Professor in Audio and Music Technology, Department of Electronic Engineering, University of York

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Contributors

Introduction to “Together in music: coordination, expression, participation”

Part 1 Coordination and ensemble organization

1 Music ensembles as self-organized groups

Nicola Pennill and Dermot Breslin

2 Group behaviors as music

James Saunders

3 Organizational dynamics in community ensembles

David A. Camlin

4 Agency in ensemble interaction and rehearsal communication

Su Yin Mak, Hiroko Nishida, and Daisuke Yokomori

5 Investigating emergent coordination in small music groups

Nicola Pennill and Jane W. Davidson

6 The ministry of sound

Kathryn King

7 Playful production

Elizabeth Haddon and Catherine Laws

8 Teaching through ensemble performance

J. Murphy McCaleb

9 The impact of group identity on the social dynamics and sustainability of chamber music ensembles

Alana Blackburn

10 Come together

Wendy K. Moy

11 Working practices of professional piano accompanists outlined through a conceptual framework

Evgenia Roussou

12 Developing familiarity

Jane Ginsborg and Dawn Bennett

Part 2 Expression, communication, and interaction

13 Embodiment, process, and product in ensemble expression

Renee Timmers

14 Gestures in ensemble performance

Alexander Refsum Jensenius and Çağrı Erdem

15 Technologies for investigating large ensemble performance

Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey and Eric F. Clarke

16 Understanding expressive ensemble singing through acoustics

Helena Daffern and Sara D’Amario

17 Ensemble timing and synchronization

Sara D’Amario and Freya Bailes

18 Ensemble interaction in indeterminate music

Emily Payne and Philip Thomas

19 Using performance sociograms to investigate inter-performer relationships in music ensembles

Christoph Seibert

20 Together in cyberspace

Ryan Kirkbride

21 “Crystal clear” or “as clear as mud!”

Mary T. Black

22 An historical perspective on ensemble performance

Christopher Terepin

23 Beyond synchronization

Laura Bishop, Carlos Cancino-Chacón, and Werner Goebl

Part 3 Participation, development, and wellbeing

24 Ensembles for wellbeing

Gunter Kreutz and Michael Bonshor

25 Ensemble musicians’ health and wellness

Naomi Norton

26 Musical interaction, social communication, and wellbeing

Tal-Chen Rabinowitch and Satinder Gill

27 Ensemble participation and personal development

Karen Burland

28 Empowering ensembles

Helen J. English

29 Ensembles in music therapy

Stuart Wood and Irene Pujol Torras

30 Ensemble participation in late adulthood

Jennifer MacRitchie and Sandra Garrido

31 Emotional, cognitive, and motor development in youth orchestras

Donald Glowinski, Cecile Levacher, Florian Buchheit, Chiara Malagoli, Benjamin Matuszewski, Simon Schaerlaeken, Chiara Noera, Katie Edwards, Carlo Chiorri, Frédéric Bevilacqua, and Didier Grandjean

32 Enhanced learning through joint instrumental education

Andrea Schiavio

33 Collaborative composition and performance in arts and health workshops

James Williams

34 Encountering the singing body

Daniel Galbreath and Gavin Thatcher

35 Ensemble singing for wellbeing and social inclusion of street children

Juliana Moonette Manrique and Angelina Gutiérrez

36 Together in music

Renee Timmers, Freya Bailes, and Helena Daffern

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Index