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The Music Performers' Lived Experiences seeks to widen this research area through close investigations of a variety of rich, and nuanced experiences classical music performers have
qua performers, as they interact with musical scores and wider artistic and cultural discourses, norms and beliefs.
List of contents
List of Figures and TablesList of Music ExamplesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction
Mine Döantan-Dack 1 Living With and Imagining the Composer
Mary Hunter2 The Wisdom of the Classical Music Performer
Mine Döantan-Dack 3 Reconnecting with the Past, Feeling the Future and Enjoying the Present: Towards a Novel Pedagogy of Performing Abilities
László Stachó4 The Joy of Sight-Reading
Eugene Montague 5 Performing Musical and Metaphysical Agency in P¿teris Vasks'
Gr¿mata ¿ellamRebecca Thumpston-Gallagher 6 Rachmaninoff Meets Stanislavski: An Allegorical Archive and the Topos of Breath
Pheaross Graham7 But Whose Life, Really?: Singers' Experiences of Performing Robert Schumann's
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Natasha Loges8 "I Was Trying to Get Down the Mountain with My Violin Strapped to My Back": Performance Anxiety Dreams of Classical Music Performers
Mine Döantan-Dack and László Stachó9 Cross-Genre Musicking in Individual and Collaborative Group Contexts: Lived Experience and Musical Identity
Ruth Herbert and Asha Parkinson10 Intersubjectivity in Performance
Ian Cross and Neta Spiro11 Mixed Methods for Researching Musicians' Lived Experience: The Philosophy and Science of Musical Absorption
Simon Høffding12 Sensing Sound-Motion Objects in Music Performance
Rolf Inge GodøyIndex
About the author
Mine Döantan-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 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.
