Listeners’ Perceptions of Choral Performances With Static and Expressive Movement

Nápoles, Jessica; Geringer, John M.; Adams, Kari; Springer, D. Gregory

doi:10.1177/0022429420983833

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“…The results of this study show that, in general, movement does impact the perception of musical qualities. These results are consistent with previous research on this topic (Davidson, 2007; Geringer et al, 1997; Huang & Krumhansl, 2011; Juchniewicz, 2008; Krahé et al, 2015; Morrison et al, 2009; Nápoles et al, 2022; Silveira, 2014; VanWeelden & McGee, 2007). A comparison with audio-only stimuli shows that listeners discern not specifically a change in actual sound through the movement, but simply a change in perception of the sound when it is experienced in conjunction with the corresponding video stimuli.…”

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“…Both music majors and non-music majors perceived homogenous levels of artistic tension (stress and release) in a dance recording (David Frego, 1999). Similar results were found by Nápoles et al (2022) However, experienced musicians responded more acutely to stage behavior of pianists than their non-musician counterparts (Huang & Krumhansl, 2011).…”

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confidence: 78%

“…Previous studies have been conducted to examine body movement's effect on tempo, steady beat (Conway et al, 2014), emotional perception (Krahé et al, 2015), and other expressive qualities (Nápoles et al, 2022). Additional research was conducted to measure bodily movement with stimuli including piano soloists, trombone quartets, vocal soloists, and several duets (Davidson, 1993(Davidson, , 2007(Davidson, , 2012.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additional research was conducted to measure bodily movement with stimuli including piano soloists, trombone quartets, vocal soloists, and several duets (Davidson, 1993(Davidson, , 2007(Davidson, , 2012. Recent studies have included choral ensembles (Nápoles et al, 2022), but included pre-recorded performances from Youtube™, as opposed to a controlled recording created strictly for the study. Thus, the diverse actions and movements of a choir are a unique aspect of the present study.…”

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Mind, body, and soul: The effects of bodily movement on listeners’ perceptions of choral performances

Langley

2022

International Journal of Music Education

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The purpose of this study was to examine what effect performer’s bodily movement may have on listeners’ (N = 103) perceptions of a choral ensemble performance. A 34-voice choir was audio/video recorded performing two different musical excerpts. Each excerpt was recorded twice, once with movement and once without movement, for a total of four audio/video recordings. Additionally, the audio from each of these recordings was isolated and used as a separate stimuli. Participants were presented each stimuli (movement/non-movement, audio only/audio + video), and asked to rate each for expressivity and style. The factor of audio/video was not found to have consistently significant differences in rating. However, there was a consistent interaction effect between these two stimuli, suggesting that both the visual and auditory differences when using movement conversely effected the listeners’ perception. College major did not prove to be a consistent indicator, but membership in a choral ensemble significantly impacted ratings. Implications may include a greater effect of movement when viewed by the listener than simply what can be perceived in the aural stimuli alone. Suggestions for further research include additional study between choral and instrumental music.

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Mind, body, and soul: The effects of bodily movement on listeners’ perceptions of choral performances

Langley

2022

International Journal of Music Education

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“…e experimental results include improving the multiple intelligences of the data [7]. Action research is used in some papers [8], and it is more inclined to cautious attitude [9][10][11]. Multiple Intelligences eory is a very good perspective for organizational education, but it is not necessarily an educational purpose [12].…”

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Evaluation Method of Vocal Music Teaching Quality for Music Majors Based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences

2022

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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The quality evaluation of vocal music teaching for music majors is of great significance to music education. Based on the theory of multiple intelligences, this paper constructs a model for evaluating the quality of vocal music teaching for music majors and introduces the theory of multiple intelligences into the operation form, design requirements, and recommended lesson examples of music teaching unit design. The experimental data and questionnaire data collected by the model verify that this operation is beneficial to the improvement of students’ music listening scores, vocal music comprehension scores, and total scores and solves the quantitative problem of vocal music teaching quality evaluation. In the simulation process, the engineering testing and analysis method uses the correlation rate and correlation strength as the analysis indicators, comparing the platforms for the quality evaluation of vocal music teaching in music majors and the corresponding quality evaluation data preprocessing process. The experimental results show that the algorithm performance evaluation is carried out based on the three aspects of quality evaluation association rules, algorithm running time, and algorithm memory consumption. The multiple intelligence algorithm is applied to vocal music teaching analysis of association rules for quality evaluation: when 4000 tasks call for 20–40 virtual resources, the total time spent is reduced by 61.7%, which has a significant positive effect on the knowledge expansion and ability improvement of music majors.

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Increased body movement equals better performance? Not always! Musical style determines motion degree perceived as optimal in music performance

Moura,

Fonseca,

Vilas-Boas

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Psychological Research

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Musicians’ body behaviour has a preponderant role in audience perception. We investigated how performers’ motion is perceived depending on the musical style and musical expertise. To further explore the effect of visual input, stimuli were presented in audio-only, audio–visual and visual-only conditions. We used motion and audio recordings of expert saxophone players playing two contrasting excerpts (positively and negatively valenced). For each excerpt, stimuli represented five motion degrees with increasing quantity of motion (QoM) and distinct predominant gestures. In the experiment (online and in-person), 384 participants rated performance recordings for expressiveness, professionalism and overall quality. Results revealed that, for the positively valenced excerpt, ratings increased as a function of QoM, whilst for the negatively valenced, the recording with predominant flap motion was favoured. Musicianship did not have a significant effect in motion perception. Concerning multisensory integration, both musicians and non-musicians presented visual dominance in the positively valenced excerpt, whereas in the negatively valenced, musicians shifted to auditory dominance. Our findings demonstrate that musical style not only determines the way observers perceive musicians’ movement as adequate, but also that it can promote changes in multisensory integration.

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Listeners’ Perceptions of Choral Performances With Static and Expressive Movement

Cited by 8 publications

References 23 publications

Mind, body, and soul: The effects of bodily movement on listeners’ perceptions of choral performances

Mind, body, and soul: The effects of bodily movement on listeners’ perceptions of choral performances

Evaluation Method of Vocal Music Teaching Quality for Music Majors Based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Increased body movement equals better performance? Not always! Musical style determines motion degree perceived as optimal in music performance

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