Published: 10. September 2009
This research area focuses on the processes involved in musical interpretation. Within this context, artistic development work and research will contribute to increased understanding of the performer’s creative processes from a musical text towards the final artistic expression (concert/performance, audio/video recording, etc.).
Interpretation – reflection, performance and documentation
In the process of interpreting a musical text, the performer combines his or her experience, creativity and reflection with artistic intuition. This process always implicitly involves reflection and musical choices, but these reflections are not always explicitly expressed or documented.
The aim of this focus area is to document these processes and cultivate knowledge through interdisciplinary collaboration with researchers in related fields.
More specific examples of topics include:
- The performer’s approach to interpretation of specific musical works
- Specific composers, styles, traditions
- Performing practice in our time: Musical traditions and preferences
- The relationship between national and international traditions and trends, ideas and interpretative practices
With effect from August 2010 until July 2013, this focus area will be divided into three core projects:
1. Interpretative Choices in Early Romantic Music
2. Musikkarvprosjektet ( The Sound of Norwegian History)
3. New Instrumental Practices
In addition to these three core projects the foucus area will launch its own referee journal "Music and Practice" and have its own website which includes the publishing of audio-visual materials. The focus area will have shared leadership between an artistic and a scientific leader.
Questions may be directed to:
Artistic director Tor Espen Aspaas
Scientific director Erlend Hovland
R & D manager Siw Nielsen Graabræk
R & D advisor Siren Tjøtta
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