Nuove frontiere per la metodologia di ricerca sull’esecuzione musicale: il connubio tra arte e scienza

Resumen

Music performance analysis is today a shared territory of research
for musicians-researchers and scientists. On the one hand, artist-researchers
are discussing on the possibilities to apply empirical methods in order to give
objective validity to the artistic investigation on music performance. On the
other, scientists recognize the need to integrate the artistic perspective in the
analysis and interpretation of the quantitative data, related to musical
performance (such as the tracking gesture and the audio detections). To define
the path that determines the transformation of music performance practice into
a research on music performance, this article highlights the problems related to
the choice of methods and proposes the interdisciplinary approach (performerassistive
method) developed at the IPEM, the Department of Systematic
Musicology of the University of Ghent. The aim is to integrate the
subjective/phenomenological approach and the objective/empirical approach to
facilitate the documentation and the analysis of the performers’ movements and
the sound produced on the instruments. The advantages of this interdisciplinary method, which encourages a dialogue between art and science and the
implementation of technology, are presented and discussed. The aim is to open
new perspectives for the enrichment and the innovation of both the artistic and
scientific research on music performance.