Music Performers' Lived Experiences

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.

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 major 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.

List of Figures and Tables List of Music Examples Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Mine Döantan-Dack 1 Living With and Imagining the Composer Mary Hunter 2 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 Stachó 4 The Joy of Sight-Reading Eugene Montague 5 Performing Musical and Metaphysical Agency in P-teris Vasks' Gr-mata -ellam Rebecca Thumpston-Gallagher 6 Rachmaninoff Meets Stanislavski: An Allegorical Archive and the Topos of Breath Pheaross Graham 7 But Whose Life, Really?: Singers' Experiences of Performing Robert Schumann's Frauenliebe und -leben op. 42 Natasha Loges 8 "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 Stachó 9 Cross-Genre Musicking in Individual and Collaborative Group Contexts: Lived Experience and Musical Identity Ruth Herbert and Asha Parkinson 10 Intersubjectivity in Performance Ian Cross and Neta Spiro 11 Mixed Methods for Researching Musicians' Lived Experience: The Philosophy and Science of Musical Absorption Simon Høffding 12 Sensing Sound-Motion Objects in Music Performance Rolf Inge Godøy Index