Paper Info
Title
Decomposing a Composition: On the Multi-layered Analysis of Expressive Music Performance.
Abstract
In our engagement with music, not only the physical experience of sound is important. Also the interplay between body movements, musical gestures and the cognitive processes of performers and listeners is part of our experience. Yet, this multimodal aspect is not always fully considered when analyzing music performance. In this paper, we want to establish a framework for a multi-layered analysis of music performance, building on data retrieved from quantitative and qualitative procedures and involving the perspectives of composer, performer and musicologist. The performance of a classical guitarist was analyzed in detail, using both a 'bottom-up' approach (audio-analysis and motion-capture) and a 'top-down' perspective (annotations from video-footage, perceived phrasing and the composer's, performer's and researcher's perspective). These different analytical layers were compared and evaluated, which pointed out that multiple perspectives can reinforce each other in understanding musical intentions and can help detecting mismatches between qualitative and quantitative data. The analytical framework developed could be an important step in the coupling of performer's intentions with the expressive enactment of a musical score.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-46282-0_11
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Music performance,Gesture,Multimodal analysis,Embodied music cognition
Embodied music cognition,Music and emotion,Computer science,Musical,Gesture,Musicology,Musical composition,Musicality,Music psychology,Multimedia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9617
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Esther Coorevits100.68
Dirk Moelants27910.82
Stefan Östersjö300.34
David Gorton400.34
Marc Leman56711.96