This thesis investigates cross-modal interactions in auditory and visual perception, focusing on the perception of expressive musical performances. A primary aim of the work is to advance knowledge pertaining to how and when musicians' body movements influence an observer's overall experience. Three studies, comprising two multi-factor experimental investigations and one theoretical contribution, explore the multi-modal experience of musical performance. The two empirical chapters investigate, respectively, (1) the real-time experience of musical structure and musical emotion, comparing unimodal and multimodal conditions, and (2) the multidimensional structure of affective responses to musical performance, as a function of sensory modalities and performance intentions. The theoretical chapter develops a class of quantitative models for studying real-time phenomena in music (in particular) and time-series data (in general). An original contribution of this thesis is to quantify the ways in which the auditory and visual components of musical performance contribute singly and in interaction with one another to overall experience. The studies show that seeing a musician performing can augment, complement and interact with the auditory component to significantly influence music perception. These results are relevant to, and inform theories on, multi-sensory integration, emotion, and music cognition, as well as performance practice and audio-video media.

Note: / Performance anxiety is a common experience for many musicians, firmly engrained in them by the age of eight. While it has been suggested throughout the literature that this is a learned condition developed during childhood, its appearances in younger children have not yet been studied. The purpose of this study was to document the performance experiences of very young children with respect to performance anxiety.[...] / L'anxiété de performance est vécue par plusieurs musiciens et serait déjà enracinée chez certains apprentis musiciens des l' âge de huit ans. Bien que plusieurs chercheurs considèrent qu'il s'agit la d'un phénomène acquis, se développant pendant l'enfance, ses premières manifestations n'ont jamais été étudiées. L'objectif de cette recherche est donc de documenter l'existence du stress lie a la performance musicale chez les très jeunes enfants.[...]

Thesis (M. Mus.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Music Education, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Sept. 14, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-134). Also issued in print.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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The purpose of the lecture/recital was to demonstrate how pioneering composers such as Vincent Persichetti, Karel Husa, Joseph Schwantner, Michael Colgrass, and David Maslanka helped create the modem day wind ensemble percussion section. The Lecture/Recital consisted of a demonstration of extended techniques used in each of these composers’ works for wind ensemble, which enabled the composers to add different colors and timbres to the music. The lecture also included illustrations of possible setups and the number of percussion instruments utilized for each composition. A performance of various excerpts from each work concluded the lecture/recital.

Orientadora: Sonia Ray / Banca: Rogério Luiz Moraes Costa / Banca: Valerie Albright / Acompanha o CD "Umagoma - Estudos " e o DVD com o recital de defesa / Resumo: A improvisação livre, por suas características sui generis, traz ao campo da preparação para performance uma problemática diversa daquela encontrada a partir do seu estudo fundado na música tradicional, idiomática, seu objeto preferencial. Este trabalho investiga os elementos e a eficácia da preparação para a performance do contrabaixo na improvisação livre, visando a um só tempo contribuir para o estudo da preparação para performance musical, como também fornecer subsídios para a preparação e prática da improvisação livre no contrabaixo. A partir de uma revisão bibliográfica sobre os temas da improvisação livre e da preparação para performance, busca-se definir os elementos específicos necessários à preparação para performance da improvisação livre, fazendo uma análise de sua aplicação na preparação para performance musical. Discute-se também as bases conceituais da improvisação livre, buscando uma maior compreensão desta prática. Por fim, sugere-se guias para a prática da improvisação livre no contrabaixo através de estratégias e exercícios, com o intuito de estimular o conhecimento e o uso desta prática entre estudantes e músicos em geral. / Abstract: Free improvisation, regarding its unique characteristics, brings to the performance field of research a diverse problematic that is found in studies based on the traditional, idiomatic music, its preferential object. This work investigates the elements and efficiency of the free improvisation performance preparation on the double bass, aiming both to contribute to the musical performance study and to provide subsidies to the free improvisation preparation and practice on that instrument. From a literature review on the themes related to the free improvisation and performance preparation, this paper seeks to define the specific elements needed to the free improvisation performance preparation, analyzing its application in musical performance, broad sense. It also discusses the conceptual basis of the free improvisation, in order to enlarge this practice's comprehension. Guides to the initial approach to free improvisation on the double bass are presented, in order to stimulate the student and general musician to this practice. / Mestre

Orientador: Carlos Eduardo Di Stasi / Banca: Yara Borges Caznok / Banca: Fabio Fonseca de Oliveira / Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo geral tecer considerações sobre as relações intérprete/instrumento, tendo como objetivo principal estabelecer categorias de exploração tímbrica que possam abarcar as possibilidades sonoras intrínsecas aos instrumentos de percussão. Foi eleito um instrumento para ser abordado na pesquisa: o vibrafone, por ser muito versátil e ter sido bastante procurado para obras e experiências sobre timbre. As categorias foram definidas buscando pontos em comum entre as diversas relações intérprete/instrumento que podem envolver a realização de uma determinada performance musical. O trabalho apresenta uma discussão acerca do termo técnica estendida, refletindo sobre as suas implicações, as diversas visões sobre o assunto e propondo a utilização da expressão exploração tímbricacomo alternativa ao primeiro termo. Também são discutidas outras maneiras de abordar o sistema som-gesto que envolve a performance, apresentados por Luk Vaes e Ellen Fallowfield. Concomitantemente, foi realizado um trabalho com compositores, no qual foram encomendados solos especialmente para o projeto, estimulando novas explorações no vibrafone por meio de relaçõescolaborativas. Esses novos solos para vibrafone, conjuntamente ao repertório solo e de música de câmara do instrumento (composta da década de 1950 até a atualidade) serão utilizados para exemplificar, delinear e discutir as categorias de exploração tímbrica, que têm como objetivo principal servir como interface aos compositores que querem trabalhar as possibilidades sonoras do instrumento em suas composições / Abstract: The general objective of this research is to describe considerations on the performer/instrument relationship, having as a maingoal to establish categories of timbrical exploration that can encompass the sonic possibilities intrinsic to percussion instruments. On of them was chosen to be addressed in the research:the vibraphone, for being very versatile and highly sought for works and experiments on timbre. The categories were outlined by seeking commonalities between the various relationships of performer/instrument that can happen during a determined musical performance. Thepaper presents a discussion of the term extended technique, reflecting on its implications, the many views onthe issue and proposing the use of the term timbrical explorationas an alternative. Other ways to approach the soundgesture system that involves the performance are also discussed, presented by Luk Vaes and Ellen Fallowfield. At the same time, an activity with composers was developed, in which solos pieces were commissioned especially for the project, stimulating new explorations on the vibraphone through collaborative relationships.These new works for vibraphone, together with the already existing solo and chamber music repertoire for the instrument (composed from the 1950s to the present), will be used to illustrate, outline and discuss the categories of timbrical exploration, which have the purpose to serve as an interface to composers who want to work the sonic possibilities of the instrument in their compositions / Mestre

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