Friday 15 July 2011
Session 3A: Optimising performance potential
- Marilyn Wyers & Neil March
Shaping music, shaping you: optimising music performance potential through body movement/dance (special session)(text; score)
Session 3B: Improvisation 2
- Amir Eslami & Hooshyar Khayam
A new approach to improvisation in Persian music (lecture-recital)
Session 3C: Shape, gesture, enactment
- William Brooks, Catherine Laws & Damien Harron
Sounded gestures and enacted sounds (text; slides) - Helen Prior
Exploring the experience of shaping music in performance (text) - Jane Davidson & Sharon Chung
Taking shape over time: a case study approach to the development and use of facial gesture and bodily expression in contemporary interpretations of Liebestraum by Franz Liszt - Deniz Peters
Letting the body decide: creativity, gesture and musical emodiment in space as a virtual instrument (text; video 1; video 2; video 3)
Session 3D: Jazz
- Marc Duby
Teaching and assessing jazz ensemble performance: a South African perspective (slides) - Kathy Dyson
Learning jazz improvisation from a schema perspective (text) - Garry Hagberg
Jazz improvisation, group attention, and collective intention - Kai Stefan Lothwesen & Klaus Frieler
Shaping jazz piano improvisation: the influence of tempo, tonality and expertise on improvised musical structures (slides)
Session 4A: Performers and (or) composers
- Amanda Glauert, Colin Lawson & Cavaleri Quartet
The performer’s mind and spirit: reflective practice ‘alla tedesca’ (text) - Mary Hunter
Trying (or not) to ‘do right by them’: performance and the conception of the composer - Jonathan Pitkin
Creating the illusion of improvisation: a composer’s perspective (text; score)
Session 4B: From score(s) to performance(s)
- Cristina Capparelli Gerling
Creative performance within the boundaries of the score (slides; text) - Zelia Chueke
Mystery and innovation in performances of Mozart’s Fantasy KV 475: following the guidance of three great twentieth-century masters (text) - Scott Murphy
One performance, multiple scripts: the peculiar case of the fifth bar of Brahms’s ‘Double Concerto’ (slides) - David Kopp
Performing the unique: Messiaen’s Petites esquisses d’oiseaux
Session 4C: Historical performance/recordings/Bach
- Chia Wei Lin
Echoes of nineteenth-century improvisation: a view from a historical recording by Egon Petri (text) - Daniel Bangert, Dorottya Fabian & Emery Schubert
Bach performance: a case study of musical decision-making - Dario Sarlo
Studying concert performances: the iconic career of Jascha Heifetz - Abigail Dolan
Rubato and the creative performer: between freedom and structure (slides; text)