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View article: Gadamer’s Horizons as Interfaces for Knowing Musical Worlds
Gadamer’s Horizons as Interfaces for Knowing Musical Worlds Open
According to Hans-Georg Gadamer, like any artwork, a musical performance has play in its essence: a non-teleological ‘to-and-fro movement’ that is independent of the musicians. Controversially, Gadamer claims that aesthetic understanding d…
View article: Talking Scores and the Dismediation of Music Notation
Talking Scores and the Dismediation of Music Notation Open
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 aud…
View article: Music As Extended Agency: On Notation And Entextualization IN Improvised Music
Music As Extended Agency: On Notation And Entextualization IN Improvised Music Open
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 …
View article: (Re-)Assembling Notations in the Performance of Early Music
(Re-)Assembling Notations in the Performance of Early Music Open
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 music…
View article: Notation Cultures: Towards an Ethnomusicology of Notation
Notation Cultures: Towards an Ethnomusicology of Notation Open
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 …
View article: The Textility of Marking: Performers’ Annotations as Indicators of the Creative Process in Performance
The Textility of Marking: Performers’ Annotations as Indicators of the Creative Process in Performance Open
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 co…
View article: The Instant Composers Pool: Music Notation and the Mediation of Improvising Agency
The Instant Composers Pool: Music Notation and the Mediation of Improvising Agency Open
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 Compo…