Ensemble performance may involve each member contributing to a shared interpretation of the piece. In commercial recordings of piano duo performances, this study examines how individual differences in interpretation between...
Publications and working papers
Inferring Musical Structure through Bodily Gestures
Despite the idiosyncrasies present in bodily motion during musical performances, it is suggested that these movements are not incidental but instead contribute to the meaning of performed music. Nine pianists...
Trumpet mouthpiece manufacturing and tone quality
This article investigates the relationship between the shape of the mouthpiece and its acoustical properties in brass instruments. The hypothesis is that not only different volumes but also particular cup...
The Intentions of Piano Touch
For pianists, touch is a corporeal tool that can be used not only to physically produce notes on the piano, but to mediate their expressive intentions for the performed music....
Giuseppe Verdi in Victorian London
Despite the vast research on Verdi’s compositional as well as dramatic achievements, little attention seems to have been paid to the early reception of his works in Victorian London. A...
Recorded Interpretations of Chopin Preludes: Performer’s choice of score events for emphasis and emotional communication
What structural features characterize individual performers’ styles? To what extent do eminent pianists agree on segmentation and rendering of musical phrases? How much do they agree on selection of score...
Exploring Expressive Piano Touch through Measurements of Finger Curvature
Viewed from piano pedagogy literature, finger curvature is a causative parameter in performance, altering the resultant tones. Investigations into the physical properties of the piano, however, produce conflicting views over...
Elucidating Musical Structure through Empirical Measurement of Performance Parameters
The differences between a musical score and an instance of that music in a performance, communicates a performer’s view of the information contained in that score. The main hypothesis in...