Perceiving musical individuality: performer identification is dependent on performer expertise and expressiveness, but not on listener expertise |
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Authors: | Gingras Bruno Lagrandeur-Ponce Tamara Giordano Bruno L McAdams Stephen |
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Affiliation: | CIRMMT, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, 555 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, Quebec H3A 1E3, Canada. bruno.gingras@univie.ac.at |
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Abstract: | Can listeners distinguish unfamiliar performers playing the same piece on the same instrument? Professional performers recorded two expressive and two inexpressive interpretations of a short organ piece. Nonmusicians and musicians listened to these recordings and grouped together excerpts they thought had been played by the same performer. Both musicians and nonmusicians performed significantly above chance. Expressive interpretations were sorted more accurately than inexpressive ones, indicating that musical individuality is communicated more efficiently through expressive performances. Furthermore, individual performers' consistency and distinctiveness with respect to expressive patterns were shown to be excellent predictors of categorisation accuracy. Categorisation accuracy was superior for prize-winning performers compared to non-winners, suggesting a link between performer competence and the communication of musical individuality. Finally, results indicate that temporal information is sufficient to enable performer recognition, a finding that has broader implications for research on the detection of identity cues. |
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