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Music and Knowledge APerformer’sPerspective PerDahl UniversityofStavanger,Norway SENSEPUBLISHERS ROTTERDAM/BOSTON/TAIPEI MusicandKnowledge AC.I.P.recordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. ISBN978-94-6300-885-3(paperback) ISBN978-94-6300-886-0(hardback) ISBN978-94-6300-887-7(e-book) Publishedby:SensePublishers, P.O.Box21858, 3001AWRotterdam, TheNetherlands https://www.sensepublishers.com/ Allchaptersinthisbookhaveundergonepeerreview. Printedonacid-freepaper Allrightsreserved©2017SensePublishers Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted inanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microﬁlming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exceptionofanymaterialsuppliedspeciﬁcallyforthepurposeofbeingenteredand executedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface ix List of Figures xv Part I: Music and Knowledge Chapter 1: A Musician’s Store of Knowledge 3 Introduction 3 Practice, Practice, Practice 3 Dreyfus’ Model of Skill Acquisition 4 What about the Genes? 10 Chapter 2: Music Performance as Creative Practice 13 The Musical Performance 13 The Creative Practice 16 Chapter 3: The Rise and Fall of Literacy in Classical Music 25 Introduction 25 The Rise of Literacy in Music 25 The Work of Art 27 The Classical Music 30 The Fall of Literacy 33 Chapter 4: Music Reading as Eye Movement 39 Background 39 The Music Reading Process 40 Design of Music Notation 45 Part II: Methodology Chapter 5: Hypothetico-Deductive Method 51 Introduction 51 The Hypothetico-Deductive Method 54 The Scientific Method 59 v TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 6: Where is the Musical Work? 63 Introduction 63 The Communicative Chain 65 Chapter 7: Semiotics 69 Introduction 69 Ogden’s Triangle 70 Saussure 72 Peirce 73 Chomsky’s Generative Grammar 75 Lerdahl and Jackendoff 77 Chapter 8: Is Music a Language? 81 Introduction 81 Music as an International Language 82 The Language of the Emotions 83 Chapter 9: Hermeneutics 91 A Short Ride in the History of Hermeneutics 91 Explanation and Understanding 93 A Model of Communication 96 Chapter 10: What Happens to the Music When You Are Listening? 101 Introduction 101 The Listening Process 101 Chapter 11: Phenomenology 107 Introduction 107 Husserl 107 Phenomenological Method 109 The First-Person Perspective and Time-Consciousness 112 Chapter 12: Analysis and Interpretation: Two Sides of the Same Coin? 115 Introduction 115 Musicology and Analysis 116 Interpretation 118 The Coin 119 vi TABLE OF CONTENTS Part III: Artistic Research Chapter 13: A World beyond the Score 125 Two Quotations on Science 125 The Representational Theory 126 Embodied Meaning 131 Chapter 14: A World of Perspectives 135 Introduction 135 A Cognitive Approach 135 A Linguistic Approach 136 An Artistic Approach 139 Chapter 15: A World of Artistic Expression 143 Introduction 143 The Practitioner’s Knowledge 143 Artistic Expressions 145 Music as Communication 147 Name Index 153 vii PREFACE This book presents different perspectives on knowledge in performing music. Having the musician in focus through all theoretical presentations and using a broad understanding of the concept ‘knowledge’ the book presents several methodologies from science and the humanities and links them to a performer’s situation. A distinguished feature of this book relates to a musician’s reflection on the constitution of knowledge in performative practice and artistic research. Part I Music and Knowledge starts with the everyday routines and some challenges in a classical musician’s working situation. At the same time, this part will introduce some important concepts to be more developed in Parts II and III. The many methodological approaches that are at stake in the performer’s practice makes necessary a broad concept of knowledge. The overall goal of Part I is to make a connection between practice and theory visible and attractive to the performer. Chapter 1 starts with the main subject to all students of music performance, practice, practice, practice. The focus on the product: How does it sound? makes this an example of a practice that involves the practitioner’s knowledge. The aspiration to become an excellent performer makes theories on skill acquisition interesting. And, do the genes stop your talent, or is it the genes that make you talented? These questions surface quite often among young musicians. The professional musician does need to be able to play the notated music but knows that to make the score become music he/she must make deviations from the score in a creative way. That creative process will be discussed in Chapter 2 focusing on the temporality of music as a dimension making the performer’s situation and choices unique. Classical music is incredibly connected to traditions of notation. In Chapter 3 an alternative history of music is presented, showing the rise and fall of literacy in classical music. The rise of literacy is connected to the first notation traditions in the church where the goal was to secure a consistent liturgical practice in different communities. The development of notation practice made possible a division between composer and performer, and later many professions related to music in the society. Common to all were the need for a performance (by yourself or by musicians) to be able to listen to music. In classical music, the notation practice was the grounding and an active identity-maker. The fall came with the invention of the phonograph and the gramophone industry where music became available without any competence in literacy of music. As the literacy of classical music is so essential Chapter 4 will present some of the research made on Music reading as eye movements and cognitive structure. Developing a flow chart of the reading process will illustrate several elements in the process from reading to action in a performance situation. ix PREFACE Part II Methodology will be the core of the book both presenting and applying different methodological traditions regarding a performer’s situation as a grounding for artistic research. I will use the same basic model of investigation to illustrate the different methodological perspectives. It consists of the following elements: Observer/Observation - Sign/Theory and Consequence/Context. The presented methods have different foci. We get a different kind of knowledge from each methodology, and it is important to know what kind of questions the different methods can answer. Starting with the Hypothetico-deductive method, the most common method in science searching for knowledge about observable objects, I continue with Semiotics, questioning the relation between observation/experience and language (sign and symbol). Moving one more step to Hermeneutics, I elaborate on the expression of the sign/symbol and its relation to the context and the observer. Music experiences as a phenomenon make a presentation of some basic phenomenological traits necessary to complete the observer’s position. To each presentation, I have an extra chapter raising some recurring issues in music theory discourse. In Chapter 5, I take the traditional chart of investigation as a point of departure. A problem/an issue may arise based on several observations. Then you can induce/formulate a hypothesis. From that, you can deduce empirical consequences to be tested and the results compared with the hypothesis. I will give several examples from a performer’s daily challenges where an understanding of the hypothetico-deductive method will be efficient. Many observable elements in a performance practice can be treated isolated as objects where the restrictions in the H-P method can illuminate the variety of choices. The major issue in regarding the view of seeing music as an object is the subject of Chapter 6: Where is the musical work? The simple answer “In the composer’s mind” does not fit the discourses used among musicians. Besides, we have no access to the composer’s mind so the object seeking question where … can be seen as a category mistake (searching for something that is not a thing/object). As pointed out in Chapter 3 the score has taken the position of the objective representation of the musical work. Still, there is no sound. There is a need for a performance, and therefore we introduce another human: the musician with his/her creative mind. The musician can be the listener as well, but usually, our mind works differently when listening compared to a performance situation. I will elaborate Stephen Davies’ metaphor on thin and thick musical works and develop a model showing how the musical work changes identity from composer via performer to listener. In all three instances, there is a thickening and thinning of the work. Chapter 7 has a particular focus on our ability to develop signs and symbols. The concepts we use in our discourse about music are dependent on ideological premises. I will comment and exemplify how to identify the frame of possible expressions in a notated score with reference to the understanding of the semiotics beyond the notation. The questions about music and language have been raised and answered in so many ways that I will concentrate on a musician’s perspective in a performing x