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Dear All,
Our next RNCM Research Seminar at 1pm in the Lecture Theatre on Friday 19 March promises to be of interest to all those with curious minds, but especially singers, pianists and violinists. Graham Hair and his colleagues Jenni MacRitchie, Bryony Buck and Nick Bailey from the Centre for Music Technology at the University of Glasgow are giving an interactive presentation entitled
"Empiricism and Listening: Measurement, Analysis and Interpretation"
This presentation considers recent projects at Glasgow University's "Centre for Music Technology" on the empirical measurement of performance attributes.
(1) with soprano Jane Manning on the technique of performing sprechstimme in Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire"
(2) with pianist Martin Jones (and others) comparing different approaches to the Finale of Chopin's B flat minor Sonata and possible conceptions of the notoriously ambiguous structure implied
(3) with Japanese violinist Miwako Abe studying phrasing and articulation using empirical measurement of bow-strokes (speed, pressure, bow position, angle in 3 dimensions etc)
(4) with composer Graham Hair using "machine-assisted rehearsal" to teach singers to perform ("by ear") microtonal melodies using the scale with 19 tones per octave.
The presentation will encourage an "interactive" exchange of ideas with audience members on how the regimes of empirical masurement available via modern technology may best be deployed to facilitate the analysis and interpretation of musical experience.
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Dr Jane Ginsborg, C.Psychol., FHEA
Associate Dean of Research and Enterprise
Director, Centre for Music Performance Research
Royal Northern College of Music
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Manchester M13 9RD
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