Presentation
This collaboration brings historical research on the representation of style in musical scores (ULB) together with experimental research exploring how visual and cognitive constraints can shape the manner in which notation may be used more effectively (University of Cambridge). These strands of research will be intertwined in a series of concerts – by the Orchestre de l’ULB, and by a violin-piano duo – presenting performances of works notated in both standard and modified versions; performers and audiences will complete specially-designed questionnaires concerning these performances providing novel information about the ways in which different notational representations might influence the ways in which music is performed and experienced. This should not only result in new scientific knowledge but could also enhance public understanding of the processes involved in musical creation.
Promoters
- Vidar Arild Stenberg, Score Design for Music Reading Group, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge
- Marie-Alexis Colin and Valérie Dufour, Laboratoire de Musicologie, ULB