1st Edition
Music Performers' Lived Experiences Theory, Method, Interpretation: Volume One
List of Figures and Tables
List of Music Examples
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Mine Doğantan-Dack
1 Living With and Imagining the Composer
Mary Hunter
2 The Wisdom of the Classical Music Performer
Mine Doğantan-Dack
3 Reconnecting with the Past, Feeling the Future and Enjoying the Present: Towards a Novel Pedagogy of Performing Abilities
László Stachó
4 The Joy of Sight-Reading
Eugene Montague
5 Performing Musical and Metaphysical Agency in Pēteris Vasks’ Grāmata čellam
Rebecca Thumpston-Gallagher
6 Rachmaninoff Meets Stanislavski: An Allegorical Archive and the Topos of Breath
Pheaross Graham
7 But Whose Life, Really?: Singers’ Experiences of Performing Robert Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben op. 42
Natasha Loges
8 “I Was Trying to Get Down the Mountain with My Violin Strapped to My Back”: Performance Anxiety Dreams of Classical Music Performers
Mine Doğantan-Dack and László Stachó
9 Cross-Genre Musicking in Individual and Collaborative Group Contexts: Lived Experience and Musical Identity
Ruth Herbert and Asha Parkinson
10 Intersubjectivity in Performance
Ian Cross and Neta Spiro
11 Mixed Methods for Researching Musicians’ Lived Experience: The Philosophy and Science of Musical Absorption
Simon Høffding
12 Sensing Sound-Motion Objects in Music Performance
Rolf Inge Godøy
Index
Biography
Mine Doğantan-Dack is a musicologist and concert pianist. Mine has published many articles on the phenomenology of live performing, dynamics of chamber music performance, pianistic touch, methodology in artistic research, history of music theory, and several edited books including Recorded Music: Philosophical and Critical Reflections (2008), Artistic Practice as Research in Music (2015), Music and Sonic Art (2018), Rethinking the Musical Instrument (2022) and The Chamber Musician in the Twenty-First Century (2022). Mine performs as a soloist and chamber musician, and has given performances of most of the major piano concerti with various orchestras. She taught at the University of Oxford, and was Professor of Music Performance Studies at the University of Manchester. She currently teaches music performance studies at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge.
