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The Effects of Non-Musical Attributes on Ratings of High-Level Performances (2015)

Sevilya Hendrickx-Lyumanova
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Name: Sevilya Hendrickx Main subject: Viola Research coach: Paul Scheepers Title of research: The effects of non-musical attributes on ratings of high-level performances Research question: What are the effects of non-musical attributes on ratings of high-level performances? Summary of Results Quality judgements form a routine part of musical listening. Depending on a particular situation and occasion, such judgements may be more or less formal ranging from a post-concert discussion and a review in the newspaper, to a thoughts expressed in a mark or awarded prize in an examination context. As musicians and music-lovers are focussed on examining the quality of the music their whole productive career, we consider ourselves to be experts at it. But research has shown otherwise, and that even though many of us might be experts at assessing musical quality, we all are liable to biases. This purpose of this study is to determine if judgements of expert musical performances would be affected by non-musical attributes of perceived outspoken appearance of the performance. In the first part of my research existing theories on the subject will be explicated. In the second part of this research an own experiment and its findings will be discussed and in the third part the results will be held against the stories of professional performers and jury members. With this study I hope to broaden the field of research on this subject and enlighten musicians and music reviewers with our human unconscious flaws and biases when it comes to assessing such a complicated matter as high level performances in music. Additionally, the results will be presented in fun way in a Powerpoint presentation. Biography Sevilya was born in Tashkent in a musical family and a mixture of different cultures. Already from a young age Sevilya knew she would like to become a professional musician, so when she was older she studied violin at the Gnesin College and Academy, Moscow. After her study, she wanted to explore more and started playing the viola under her teacher Mikhail Zemtsov. Last summer she finished her Bachelor Cum Laude at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, is about to finish her Master’s degree and will be performing with the Residentie-Orkest as their newest addition to the viola section.
typeresearch exposition
date01/01/2015
published02/06/2015
last modified02/06/2015
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urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/63756/63757
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