Making Music Together : Analytical Perspectives on Musical Interaction.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stover, Chris.

Contributor:

Stover, Chris

Michaelsen, Garrett

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Music--Performance--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

Music is a complex creative process involving many individuals, from performers to improvisers to composers to listeners and beyond. Making Music Together offers an interactive turn for music analysis, one that acknowledges the numerous kinds of interactions that take place in music-making contexts and the collaborative creativity at its center.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Illustrations

Figures

Tables

Contributors

About the Companion Website

Introduction

Philosophical Contexts

Analytical Backgrounds

Perspectives On Musical Interaction

Section 1 Embodied and Enacted Social Interaction

1 Aesthetics Meets the Performing Body

Modernism Goes Backstage

What Does the Second Concerto Look Like?

A Different Kind of Performance Pleasure

2 Analyzing Deception in Lieder and Opera

Waldesgespräch

Lucia Di Lammermoor

Conclusion

3 Improvisation, Interaction, and Interpretation

Finding a Way Out of the "Money Jungle"

A Theory of Musical Interaction

Ambiguous Beginnings

Relational Dynamics

The Relational Context of "Money Jungle"

"Money Jungle" as Programmatic Music

Connecting Beginning to End

A Relational Interpretation

4 Improvisatory Interactions Between Salsa Music and Dance

Musical Interactions: An Overview of Salsa's Basic Musical Structures

Dance Interactions: An Overview of Salsa's Basic Dance Structures

Music-Dance Interactions: Choreomusical Analyses of Improvised Dance-Music Performances

5 Duologue

Introduction: Jazz Hermeneutics and the "Duological" Process of Music-Making

Pedrito Martínez and Alfredo Rodríguez: "Ambassadors of Happiness"

"Duologue"

Conclusion: Mobility and Happiness in Music and Beyond

Section 2 Communication and Representation of Interaction

6 Interaction in Indian Music

Interaction as Connection in Sitar and Tabla Duo Performance

Interview Data Focusing On Phenomenological Experience of Connectedness

Rhythm and Microtiming Analyses of Performance Audio Data

Outcomes of the Study

Indian Music and the Global North

7 Affordances and Free Improvisation.

Perception, the Environment, and Affordances

Information, Characteristics, and Analysis

An Ecological Framework for Music Analysis

Abrams and Anderson: "Focus, ThruTime, Time→"

8 Agency, Creativity and (Inter)action in Orchestral Performance

Theoretical Musical Socialities

Methods

A Descriptive Framework of Influence and Action in Orchestral Performance

Cultural-Historical and Economic-Political Systems of Influence

Individual and Material Systems of Influence

Modes of Action

9 Listening (Transcribing) as Improvisation (Self Analysis)

Section 3 Posthuman and New Materialist Interaction

10 Affect and Acquisitiveness in Musical Interaction

Acquisitiveness and "Affective Stickiness"

Repetition and Change

Coda: Toward an Affect Methodology for Analyzing Musical Interaction

11 Silence in Free Improvisation

The Right to Remain Silent

Silence as a Discursive Infrastructure of Improvisation

Silence in Free Improvisation

Interpreting Improvisatory Silence

A Silent, Improvising Machine

Improvisation And/as Conversation

Wouter

Guy

Helga

Silence as Disapproval

Silence as Weakness

Silence and Endings

Silence and Humanness

Silence and Gender

12 Music-A Field of Non-Human Interaction

Music and Institutional Interaction-On John Cage's 4'33"

Music and Ontological Interaction-On David Toop's Free Improvisations

Music and Material Interaction-On Brian Eno's Generative Music

Final Remarks-Time and Space

13 The Uncertainty Principle in Musical Improvisation and Interaction

Physical Environments for Improvising: Uncertain External Pressures and Opportunities

Social Environments for Improvising: Uncertain External Pressures and Opportunities

Processes in Improvising: Creating Uncertainty, Avoiding Expectation.

Musical Features and Their Intrinsic Or Mutable Uncertainty

Appendix: Co-Recording Participant Details and Statistics Within Commercial Releases Involving Roger Dean (1975-1984).

14 Bracken Tongues Wept

A Short Poetics of Reembodied Sound

Transparent-Opaque Continuum

Associated-Dissociated Continuum

Locational-Diffuse Continuum

Bracken Tongues Wept: Composition

Solo Performance

Trio Performance

Multiaesthetics

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-780608-2

0-19-780607-4

9780197806074

OCLC:

1559864096