Musicians in the Making: Pathways to creative performance
- Submitting institution
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Guildhall School of Music & Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- GAUHELG
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780199346677
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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37
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This edited collection seeks to elucidate ways in which music performers (predominantly in the western classical tradition) develop ‘pathways to creative performance’ and evolve a ‘creative voice’. It forms the first volume in a series produced through the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP).
'Musicians in the Making' began from the editors’ shared premise that creative pathways to performance tend to be individually determined, non-linear and lifelong. In particular, the project embraced recent turns in creativity theory towards the significance of creative processes compared with intrinsic and individual attributes. ‘Pathways to creative performance’ thus presented a complex field of enquiry, and one that demanded scholarship from several disciplines, including performance studies, pedagogy, psychology, sociology and musicology. In addition, the volume needed to embrace perspectives from practitioner literature, which although well received had yet to be underpinned by systematic documented evidence. The editorial team was itself multi-disciplinary and worked through iterative workshops to refine the scope of the volume and identify leading figures with a range of international and institutional perspectives.
After an initial incubation period, the volume was commissioned in an unusual format, combining scholarly chapters with a series of ‘insight’ chapters from practitioners. The editors then implemented a bespoke development process, connecting practitioners and diverse scholars at two key stages, and facilitating peer review between authors. Each of the editors worked as action-editor on a third of the chapters, and the first two editors each supported half of the insight authors. The Preface was written collaboratively by the editors.
Gaunt’s sole-authored chapter addresses one especially fundamental ‘pathway to creative performance’: one-to-one tuition. It thus addresses the second CMPCP research question: ‘What learning and teaching techniques are most conducive to transmitting the musical skills and knowledge required to surpass the routine and predictable in musical performance?’.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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