Participatory music notation : composition for mixed-experience performance contexts : a thesis submitted to Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington in parital fulfilment of the degree: Master of Musical Arts in Composition, New Zealand School of Music
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2013
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Massey University
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Use of notation in participatory music can productively mediate participation,
audience reception, and participatory/presentational tensions. Interviews with
practitioners show egalitarian leadership and open membership strategies produce
mixed-experience groups that are wide-ranging in the type and level of experience of
members. Open approaches to sound production engage participant freedom,
representing and substantiating the utopian. A potential trend is identified here:
mixed-experience contexts with more open approaches to sound production appear to
be more likely to use notation in ways that are more fundamental to participation.
Through composition, development of notation, and instigation of a participatory
performance context, research findings are engaged to produce a body of new works
as a contribution to both participatory and expert fields. The relationship between
notation and context is modelled as an ecological network. The relational qualities of
notational forms are categorised by Peircian semiotic sign-type and degree of
precision. This notation function typology is applied to the body of new works. This
analysis is combined with performance comparisons of expert and mixed-experience
work versions. Trends are exposed: participatory values are exemplified by the
relational qualities of the notational forms used.
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Music participation, Musical notation, Musical performance