Burnard, P and Sorensen, N (2022) 'Making silence matter: rethinking performance creativity as a catalysing space for sounding oneself in music education.' In: Randles, C and Burnard, P, eds. The Routledge companion to creativities in music education. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 429-440. ISBN 9781032163628
Abstract
This chapter critically engages with issues of how silence is manifest in musical performance creativity. Challenging the tacet perspective, the binary approach that sees silence as an absence of sound, we view silence as a material practice, a purposive performative act. The temporal intervals which separate sounds entail choices that are governed by both intention and intuition. In making these choices performers reveal their creative and authorial expressive voice. This chapter demonstrates the rich and complex relationship between silence and sound in music, drawing on examples from a broad range of cultural contexts. Two specific viewpoints are explored in detail: the conceptual perspective of John Cage and the practice-based perspective of jazz drummer John Stevens. These contrasting positions lead to a rethinking of the materiality of silence and how the body sounding oneself as a technology of performance creativity should be scripted into more responsive practices of music education.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter or Section |
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| Divisions: | Bath School of Music and Performing Arts School of Education |
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| Date Deposited: | 16 Sep 2024 14:41 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Sep 2024 14:41 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/16465 |
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