The purpose of this study is to, within an artistic process, investigate a dance practice and how the process is enriched by the interaction with three experts within the field of dance pedagogy. Furthermore, it discusses aspects from the process that can be applied in dance education. Methods that are used is autoethnographic perspectives and self-reflective writing in the studio before inviting experts to three unique practical interviews. The results are an intense movement analysis from the work in the studio and deep interaction on the work with three interviews that highlight things such as bodily exploration, musicality and reflection on practice. The study’s conclusion is that a method for ballet class inspired by Creative movement can enrich dance education with reflexivity, but the study also highlights the importance of repetition of movement. / <p>En praktisk föreläsning av arbetet hölls 16 maj i studio 16 på Brinellvägen 58.</p>

Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 13 décembre 2023) / Pour les interprètes de musique ancienne, les danses baroques sont comme une famille et des voisins ; où que vous alliez, vous trouverez l'une d'entre elles, dans des suites, des sonates, des ballets, des opéras, et même des cantates et des oratorios, sous des noms et des formes variés. Comprendre des aspects essentiels comme le tempo, l'articulation et le phrasé dans la musique de danse baroque nécessite des informations d'interprétation. Grâce aux efforts des chorégraphes contemporains pour faire revivre les danses des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, des informations relativement détaillées sur les pratiques d'interprétation de ces danses ont été obtenues. Ce projet vise à générer de nouvelles idées pour l'interprétation du répertoire de clavecin par le biais d'une étude artistique qui intègre de multiples méthodologies. Celles-ci comprennent l'étude des traités baroques, l'analyse de la notation des danses baroques, la pratique de ces danses et l'étude comparative de la notation de danse et la notation musicale. La validité des résultats de la recherche a été estimée par la pratique, à la fois en tant que danseur et en tant que musicien accompagnant des danseurs, utilisant ainsi la pratique comme outil de recherche. En outre, de nombreuses nouvelles idées d'interprétation ont été découvertes au cours du processus de pratique. / For the early music performers, baroque dances are like family and neighbours; wherever you go, one of them will be found, in suites, sonatas, ballets, operas, and even cantatas and oratorios, with various names and forms. Understanding essential aspects like tempo, articulation, and phrasing in baroque dance music requires interpretive information. Thanks to the efforts of contemporary choreographers to revive the 17th and 18th-century dances, relatively detailed information on the performance practice of these dances has been obtained. This project aims to generate new ideas for interpreting the harpsichord repertoire through an artistic study incorporating multiple methodologies. These include the study of baroque treatises, the analysis of baroque dance notation, the practice of baroque dances, and the comparative study of baroque dance notation and music. The validity of the research findings has been judged through practical application, both as a dancer and as a musician accompanying dancers, effectively using practice as a research tool. Furthermore, numerous new interpretive ideas have been discovered during the practice process.

This thesis presents research on an amateur composer-oriented Bach choir. Its main purpose is to study the development of musical identities and musical preferences of choir members as they take shape through the collective learning process of rehearsing and performing large-scale choral music. The study analyses how the choral participation and performance creates a certain type of ‘choral capital’ (a combination of social and cultural capital within the choral setting) and how the choristers reconstruct and relate to the composer (J.S. Bach) by creating ‘choral identities’ linked to the composer-orientation of their choir. This study is based on an interdisciplinary approach, seeking concepts and ideas from different fields of study – primarily sociology and music sociology (music in everyday life and the concepts of social and cultural capital in the amateur choral setting) but also music psychology regarding concepts of musical and vocal identities, history of music (especially Bach scholars, previous biographical writings about J.S. Bach), music and education (choral singing as informal music education) and interdisciplinary studies on music, health and well-being. The methodological approach of this research consists of a grounded theory based, single case study where the case was the Croydon Bach Choir in London performing J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor, using participant observation (where I sang with the choir for one semester) and qualitative interviews as main research methods and gathering demographic background data on choir members via paper-based survey. Whereas significant research on music performances has been conducted, so far choral research, where the direct participation of the researcher as a member of the choir is used as one of the main research methods, is still quite rare. Results indicate that participants develop socio-musical identity both through their choral participation in general, performance experiences and early music consumption in the family household and the emphasis of the importance of choral singing as a fulfilment instead of pursuing a professional career. Through choral singing, participants developed ‘choral capital’ through a) the effects of collective learning on their musical taste and preferences (thus broadening their musical taste and preferences and reconstructing the composer) and b) the well-being factor of collective singing and communal learning through the process of rehearsing and performing the Mass in B Minor. Furthermore, findings indicated that participants construct Bach as a genius and a devout Lutheran, an image that relates to the romantic image of Bach presented in the late 19th – early 20th century biographical writings on the composer. Thus in general, their choral activities form a valuable addition to their social and cultural capital (´choral capital´), which they use as a source of well-being in everyday life. In addition, participants create a certain ‘choral identity’ by relating to the composer-orientation of their choir; the promotional label of Bach as a synonym for quality choral singing and the emphasis of challenging repertoire.

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Beginning with his High Mass written in 1994, popular Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström modeled multiple compositions after famous canonical works using the same texts and/or instrumentation. Sandström wants to be compared to the greatest, specifically in how a twenty-first century composer responds to a text set , in the case of J.S. Bach's , over 250 years ago. His setting of Matthäuspassion (MP), which uses the same libretto as J.S. Bach, is his most extensive non-operatic work, one he considers his most significant, and likely his last work based on a preexisting model. This study 1) examines the influence of J.S. Bach's MP on Sandström's setting in the use of characters and chorales, 2) illustrates Sandström's compositional language in MP based on recent studies on his choral music, 3) describes his use of musical symbolism, and 4) discusses his religious and spiritual motivations behind the work, as well as his preferred uses in performance.

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