Music Performers' Lived Experiences: Personal Perspectives: Volume Two (SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music)

This second volume, together with the first of a two-volume set, probes the lived experiences and subjectivities of music performers in the western art music tradition, using phenomenological, hermeneutical, empirical and historical inquiry. The two volumes widen this research area through close investigations of a variety of rich, complex and nuanced experiences classical music performers have qua performers, as they interact with musical scores, instruments, performance traditions, other musicking individuals, wider artistic and cultural discourses, norms and beliefs.The two volumes aim to “humanise” music performers and contribute towards shaping a more performer-centred discipline of Music Performance Studies.The second volume, The Music Performers’ Lived Experiences: Personal Perspectives, brings together some of the leading performer-researchers from around the world, who foreground their personal experiences, artistic voices, and insights, not only offering intimate accounts of