TY - JOUR
T1 - By myself but not alone
T2 - Agency, creativity, and extended musical historicity
AU - Schiavio, Andrea
AU - Ryan, Kevin
AU - Moran, Nikki
AU - van der Schyff, Dylan
AU - Gallagher, Shaun
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Richard Parncutt for offering suggestions and comments on different aspects of this article. We wish to thank all participants who took part in the study. Andrea Schiavio acknowledges the support of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), by which this research was funded (project number P32460). For the purposes of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. Shaun Gallagher is supported by an Australian Research Council grant to study Minds in Skilled Performance, project number DP170102987.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Royal Musical Association.
PY - 2023/3/2
Y1 - 2023/3/2
N2 - In this paper we offer a preliminary framework that highlights the relational nature of solo music-making, and its associated capacity to influence the constellation of habits and experiences one develops through acts of musicking. To do so, we introduce the notion of extended musical historicity and suggest that when novice and expert performers engage in individual musical practices, they often rely on an extended sense of agency which permeates their musical experience and shapes their creative outcomes. To support this view, we report on an exploratory, qualitative study conducted with novice and expert music.
AB - In this paper we offer a preliminary framework that highlights the relational nature of solo music-making, and its associated capacity to influence the constellation of habits and experiences one develops through acts of musicking. To do so, we introduce the notion of extended musical historicity and suggest that when novice and expert performers engage in individual musical practices, they often rely on an extended sense of agency which permeates their musical experience and shapes their creative outcomes. To support this view, we report on an exploratory, qualitative study conducted with novice and expert music.
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-musical-association
U2 - 10.1017/rma.2022.22
DO - 10.1017/rma.2022.22
M3 - Article
SN - 0269-0403
VL - 147
SP - 533
EP - 556
JO - Journal of the Royal Musical Association
JF - Journal of the Royal Musical Association
IS - 2
ER -