Music Performers' Lived Experiences (eBook)

List of Figures and Tables

List of Music Examples

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Mine Dogantan-Dack

1 Living With and Imagining the Composer

Mary Hunter

2 The Wisdom of the Classical Music Performer

Mine Dogantan-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 Peteris Vasks' Gramata cellam

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 Dogantan-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