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Spatial Co-ordination in Music Tuition.

Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Playing an instrument is a physical skill learned through observation, repetition and rehearsal.Students of orchestral instruments seek one-to-one tuition from expert musicians.However as they become more accomplished, the number of suitable tutors becomes more concentrated, especially for less common instruments.Often a tutor-student relationship develops over several years and temporary separation due to overseas performing, auditioning and teaching commitments is problematic.Some music education organisations use video conferencing as a solution to these problems, however it has long been recognised that interaction mediated by video conferencing is not analogous to a co-present experience.In this paper, ethnographic video analysis is used to study the interactions in copresent and separated instrumental music lessons.We find that the musical score represents more than a physical embodiment of the music -it plays an important role in coordinating activity and interaction.In video mediated lessons a single physical score can no longer be shared and interaction is changed as a result.
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2397906293
FWCI: 21.18
Cites: 22
Cited by: 5
Related to: 10