Payne, E orcid.org/0000-0003-2109-8126 (2018) The craft of musical performance: Skilled practice in collaboration. cultural geographies, 25 (1). pp. 107-122. ISSN 1474-4740
Abstract
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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017, The Author(s). This is an author produced version of a paper published in cultural geographies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | collaboration; craft; musical performance; rehearsal; skill; workshop |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Music (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 Jan 2017 15:38 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jan 2018 08:44 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1474474016684126 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:91116 |