Description
Music is a complex creative process involving many individuals, from performers to improvisers to composers to listeners and beyond. Yet, music analysis has often focused on individual composers' processes, much to the exclusion of a myriad of other activities that occur during the music making process. Making Music Together offers an interactive turn for music analysis, one that acknowledges the deeply collaborative creativity at the center of all music making. This perspective, fresh and novel in its approach, affords a more inclusive and expansive view of music analysis. It enables an understanding of the numerous kinds of interactions that take place in music-making contexts: interactions between musicians, between performers and their instruments, between musicians and dancers, between musicians and machines, and much more. This book engages a diverse breadth of musical styles, including Western Euroclassical musics, collaborative improvisations in jazz and free genres, and a range of global music practices. With an emphasis on the vibrant interactivity at work in all aspects of music making, Making Music Together demonstrates how detailed music analysis can attend not only to sounds made, but to the human lives, experiences, and societies defined by it altogether.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Garrett Michaelsen and Chris StoverSection 1: Embodied and Enacted Social Interaction1. Aesthetics Meets the Performing Body: Re-thinking Rachmaninoff 's Second Piano Concerto, Mine Doğantan-Dack2. Analyzing Deception in Lieder and Opera, Edward Klorman3. Improvisation, Interaction, and Interpretation: Relational Dynamics in Duke Ellington's "Money Jungle", Garrett Michaelsen4. Improvisatory Interactions Between Salsa Music and Dance, Rebecca Simpson-Litke5. Duologue: Fantasy, Time, and Travel in the Work of Pedrito Martínez and Alfredo Rodríguez, Sarah TownSection 2: Communication and Representation of Interaction6. Interaction in Indian Music: Connections and Critical Reflection, Diljeet Kaur Bhachu, Alec Cooper, and Nikki Moran7. Affordances and Free Improvisation: An Analytical Framework, Marc E. Hannaford8. Agency, Creativity and (Inter)action in Orchestral Performance, Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey and Eric F. Clarke9. Listening (transcribing) as Improvisation (self analysis), Michelle YomSection 3: Posthuman and New Materialist Interaction10. Affect and Acquisitiveness in Musical Interaction, Chris Stover11. Silence in Free Improvisation, Ritwik Banerji12. Music-A Field of Non-human Interaction, Marcel Cobussen13. The Uncertainty Principle in Musical Improvisation and Interaction, Roger T. Dean14. Bracken Tongues Wept: Reembodied Sound and Improvisation, Matthew Goodheart
