Exposition

Playing Schumann Again for the First Time (2024)

Bobby Mitchell

About this exposition

How can one learn to improvise convincingly within the context of the nineteenth-century piano repertoire? And why is it important to improvise on this repertoire in the twenty-first century? Taking the music of Robert Schumann (1810−56) as a departure point, Playing Schumann Again for the First Time proposes an answer to these questions through methods towards a pianistic practice that is driven by experimentation and strives to continually find more layers where improvisation can take place, both in sounding musical practice and in notation. These practice-based methods are contextualized by a discussion of the presence of improvisation in Western classical musical practice in the nineteenth century. They are then substantiated by an argument to use improvisation as a tool for rethinking the current performance practice of nineteenth-century music. Improvisation itself and the concepts driving this term will also be addressed: improvisation in musical performance will be described as a process guided by a feedback loop between mimesis and morphosis with which the practitioner engages using his or her individual cognitive and embodied approach to listening, forgetting, and conceptualizing; the results of which bear his or her own sonic signature. The knowledge gained in this project lies within the realm of what will be described as improvisation as practice, a category of improvisational behavior that circumvents the need to be presented as art and is rather intended for the development of one’s own music-making.
typeresearch exposition
keywordspiano practice, improvisation, Robert Schumann
date23/01/2024
published22/05/2024
last modified22/05/2024
statuspublished
share statuspublic
affiliationVrije Universiteit Brussel (BE), Erasmushogeschool Brussel (BE), Royal Conservatoire of Brussels (BE), Conservatorium van Amsterdam (NL)
copyrightBobby Mitchell
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/81476/557352
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.81476
published inResearch Catalogue


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