The AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Music
Abstract
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Organisations
- University of Cambridge (Lead Research Organisation)
- Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (Collaboration)
- Australian Research Council (Collaboration)
- Rhythm Changes Jazz Cultures and European Identities (Collaboration)
- Third Reflective Conservatoire Conference (Collaboration)
- Royal Holloway, University of London (Collaboration)
- Laboratoire d'excellence (GREAM) Groupe de Recherches Expérimentales sur l'Acte Musical (Collaboration)
- QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST (Collaboration)
- Guildhall School of Music & Drama (Collaboration)
- Cambridge Summer Music Festival (Collaboration)
- Royal College of Music (RCM) (Collaboration)
Publications
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (Author)
(2012)
A question of Cortot?s ?Berceuse?
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (Author)
(2011)
Making music with Alfred Cortot
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (Author)
(2012)
Improvising (&) faithfulness
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (Author)
(2010)
Making music with Alfred Cortot
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (Author)
(2010)
Musicology and recorded performance: CHARM and beyond
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (Author)
(2010)
Introduction to studying shape in musical performance
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (Author)
(2011)
Alfred Cortot as Chopiniste: dreamer or controller?
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (Author)
(2012)
Compositions, Scores, Performances, Meanings
in Music Theory Online
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (Co-Author)
Musicology and music information retrieval tools
Deliege, Irene; Davidson, Jane
(2011)
Music and the Mind: Essays in Honour of John Sloboda
| Title | The Elusive Chopin |
| Description | Lecture-recital outlining how historical and analytical insights into select works by Fryderyk Chopin can be conveyed through musical performance |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2012 |
| Impact | Considerable interest expressed by members of the public, who were encouraged to consult the resources at www.chopinonline.ac.uk/cfeo and www.chopinonline.ac.uk/ocve. |
| Description | Musical performance has increasingly attracted the attention of researchers after generations of relative neglect. In a dynamic five-year programme, however, the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP) has achieved new levels of understanding about music and how it is created both in and through performance. Launched in October 2009, with a focus on live musical performance and creative music-making, CMPCP has engaged a large team of musicians and musicologists spanning all stages of the career cycle. The Centre's research agenda has addressed important questions such as: How is musical performance creative? How does the act of performance take shape over time? And how does understanding musical performance as creative practice vary across different global contexts and conditions? Reflecting a recent shift in how music is taught at universities and conservatoires, the Centre's work has encouraged the interaction of theory and practice rather than their traditional separation. Based at the University of Cambridge, CMPCP has featured partnerships with King's College London, the University of Oxford, and Royal Holloway, University of London, and close affiliations with the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the Royal College of Music. It has undertaken five complementary research projects with associated workshops. Alongside these, the Centre has established an international Performance Studies Network to foster collaborative research between scholars and performers across the globe, in addition to awarding Visiting Fellowships and doctoral studentships and running three major conferences. |
| Exploitation Route | The study of musical performance has a long history within musicology, mostly in the fields of historical performance and music psychology, but only in recent years has a performance studies strand developed within the discipline. Musical performance studies now embraces a wide range of methodological approaches from such fields as music history, psychology, analysis, computational musicology, aesthetics, ethnomusicology, anthropology, cultural studies and sociology, while also rubbing shoulders with other art forms including drama, dance and the visual arts. CMPCP believes this diversity is to be celebrated: not only does it ensure greater vitality and viability, but it also paves the way for mutually enriching forms of engagement and collaboration. The Centre's Director Professor John Rink elaborates: "The fact that we can speak of performance studies as an integral part of today's musicology is attributable to the development of a sizable international community of scholars, institutions to support their work, a large body of research, established modes of dissemination, shared beliefs and values, a common discourse, and a perceived identity. But in some ways we have only just begun: in the brave new world that might now follow, the immensely significant role of performers will be fully recognized by musicologists and thus will inform and shape their research." Over forty musicians, musicologists and external experts have belonged to the CMPCP team, along with the large membership of CMPCP's Performance Studies Network. In working to consolidate research activity, CMPCP as a whole has aimed to generate new capacity and capability for future generations in part by uniting communities that to date have remained separate rather than engaging with one another. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | http://www.cmpcp.ac.uk |
| Description | Findings from the research carried out by members of the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP) have been used across a wide array of sectors, ranging from private musical tuition to university-level education, and encompassing the creative worlds of composing, giving concerts, leading masterclasses and workshops, and so forth. The commensurately broad spectrum of stakeholders has been in evidence at events including public lectures, focus-group discussions, public performances, conferences, etc. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2009 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Other |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic |
| Description | AHRC Research Grants |
| Amount | £993,117 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/N004663/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2016 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) |
| Amount | £23,994 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/J013145/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) |
| Amount | £23,994 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/J013145/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | KCL Graduate School Conference Fund Grant |
| Amount | £300 (GBP) |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | KCL Graduate School Conference Fund Grant |
| Amount | £300 (GBP) |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | KCL Graduate School Travel Bursary |
| Amount | £203 (GBP) |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | KCL Small Grant for Research in Arts & Humanities |
| Amount | £250 (GBP) |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | KCL Small Grant for Research in Arts & Humanities |
| Amount | £200 (GBP) |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | KCL Small Grant for Research in Arts and Humanities |
| Amount | £350 (GBP) |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Music and Letters Trust |
| Amount | £500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Music & Letters Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Music and Letters Trust |
| Amount | £500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Music & Letters Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2011 |
| End | 08/2011 |
| Description | Music and Letters Trust Bursaries |
| Amount | £1,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Music & Letters Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2010 |
| End | 07/2010 |
| Description | Music and Letters Trust Bursaries |
| Amount | £1,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Music & Letters Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | SEMPRE Conference Award |
| Amount | £50 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | SEMPRE Conference Award |
| Amount | £175 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | SEMPRE Conference Award |
| Amount | £175 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2012 |
| Description | SEMPRE Conference Award |
| Amount | £50 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2012 |
| Description | ARC Centre for Excellence for the History of Emotions |
| Organisation | Australian Research Council |
| Department | Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Nicholas Cook gave a keynote paper entitled 'Beyond hidden persuasion' at the 34th National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia and the 2nd International Conference on Music and Emotions, held in Perth, Australia in December 2011 in association with the ARC Centre for Excellence for the History of Emotions (of which CMPCP International Advisory Board member Jane Davidson is a Co-Director). |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | CMPCP Affiliate Artist Scheme |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Department | AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CMPCP has a roster of distinguished Affiliate Artists, including Alfred Brendel, Simon Channing, Margaret Faultless, Christopher Hogwood, Janis Kelly, Helen Reid, Susan Tomes, and the four members of the Endellion Quartet ? Andrew Watkinson, Ralph de Souza, Garfield Jackson and David Waterman.These Affiliate Artists have actively contributed to at least one CMPCP workshop or conference or to another area of the Centre's work. Full details of the current roster appear at www.cmpcp.ac.uk/people_artists.html. |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | CMPCP Associate Scheme |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Department | AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice currently has four CMPCP Associates ? Dr Mine Do_antan-Dack, Dr Helena Gaunt, Dr Nicolas Gold, and Professor Aaron Williamon ? all of whom provide high-level input to the Centre's work on an ongoing basis. For biographical details on these members see http://www.cmpcp.ac.uk/people_associates.html. |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | CMPCP International Advisory Panel |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Department | AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Both CMPCP's Directorate and the Steering Committee are supported by an International Advisory Panel, whose formal membership includes leading scholars within the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, music psychology and cognate disciplines, as well as distinguished performers, composers and music teachers. The panel's current membership includes Professor Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago), Professor Jane Davidson (University of Western Australia), Peter Dejans (Orpheus Instituut), Professor Jonathan Dunsby (Eastman School of Music), Professor Stephen McAdams (McGill University) and Professor Huib Schippers (Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University). |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Cambridge Summer Music Festival |
| Organisation | Cambridge Summer Music Festival |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The concert given on Friday 15 July 2011 by the Endellion String Quartet, which formed part of CMPCP's Performance Studies Network International Conference at the University of Cambridge in July 2011, was organised by the Cambridge Summer Music Festival. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Guildhall School of Music & Drama |
| Organisation | Guildhall School of Music & Drama |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | One of the key collaborating institutions in the 'Creative learning and "original" music performance project within CMPCP. Extensive fieldwork is being conducted at both the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama; the work in question is being undertaken by two Research Fellows based at the University of Cambridge (Dr Karen Wise and Dr Mirjam James). The director of this collaborative research project is Prof. John Rink (Cambridge), working in partnership with Dr Helena Gaunt (Guildhall School) and Prof. Aaron Williamon (Royal College of Music). |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Institute of Musical Research |
| Organisation | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Department | Institute of Musical Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Institute of Musical Research exists to facilitate research in music of all traditions and eras, and to support freelance and affiliated scholars alike. The IMR is working closely with CMPCP in mounting an annual Performance/Research seminar series along with other special events, such as the Study Day with the Arditti Quartet on 26 January 2012. |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Laboratoire d?excellence (GREAM) Groupe de Recherches Expérimentales sur l?Acte Musical |
| Organisation | Laboratoire d'excellence (GREAM) Groupe de Recherches Expérimentales sur l'Acte Musical |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | John Rink is an invited overseas member of the Comité de pilotage for the Groupe de Recherches Expérimentales sur l?Acte Musical (GREAM), which is a Laboratoire d?excellence (LABEX) at the Université de Strasbourg, France. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Rhythm Changes: Jazz Cultures and European Identities |
| Organisation | Rhythm Changes Jazz Cultures and European Identities |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Rhythm Changes project has been funded as part of the Humanities in the European Research Area?s (HERA) theme, ?Cultural dynamics: inheritance and identity?, a joint research programme funded by thirteen national funding agencies to ?create collaborative, trans-national research opportunities that will derive new insights from humanities research in order to address major social, cultural, and political challenges facing Europe?. CMPCP and the Rhythm Changes project collaborated in organising the jazz panel discussion on 17 July 2011 as part of CMPCP's Performance Studies Network International Conference entitled 'On the margins of idiomatic jazz: creativity in improvisation, performance and composition'. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Royal College of Music |
| Organisation | Royal College of Music (RCM) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | One of the key collaborating institutions in the 'Creative learning and "original" music performance project within CMPCP. Extensive fieldwork is being conducted at both the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama; the work in question is being undertaken by two Research Fellows based at the University of Cambridge (Dr Karen Wise and Dr Mirjam James). The director of this collaborative research project is Prof. John Rink (Cambridge), working in partnership with Dr Helena Gaunt (Guildhall School) and Prof. Aaron Williamon (Royal College of Music). |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queens University Belfast (SARC) |
| Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
| Department | Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Sonic Arts Research Centre was established at Queen?s University Belfast, Northern Ireland in February 2001. The Centre, the first purpose-built facility of its kind in the UK, has brought together over fifty researchers working in the fields of music, computer science and electrical and electronic engineering into a world-class research group. CMPCP collaborated with SARC on 30 June 2011 in the event 'Improvisation in the Round' (see ROS separate entry). |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Third Reflective Conservatoire Conference |
| Organisation | Third Reflective Conservatoire Conference |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Third International Reflective Conservatoire Conference 'Performing at the Heart of Knowledge' was held at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the Barbican Centre from 17 to 20 March 2012. It brought together leading researchers, professional performers and teachers in music and drama from all over the world to address key issues within music in Higher Education in a series of Keynote papers, curated sessions, seminars, practical workshops and a festival showcasing new work. The conference was delivered in partnership with the European Association of Conservatoires (AEC), The Culture Capital Exchange (TCCE), the Society for Education, Music & Psychology Research (SEMPRE) and the AHRC Research Centre for Music Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP). |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Alfred Brendel: Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chamber Music |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Chamber Music 2011 was held by Alfred Brendel. The programme consisted of the following events, all of which were held in the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge: Lectures: On Character in Music - Friday, 13 May 2011 Light and Shade of Interpretation - Monday, 16 May 2011 Open Rehearsal with Alfred Brendel and Szymanowski Quartet - Tuesday, 17 May 2011 Concert by Szymanowski Quartet - Wednesday, 18 May 2011 Stimulated considerable discussion and heightened interests. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Chopin's afterthoughts. Talk presented in The Prince's Teaching Institute Summer School Residential for English, History, Art and Music, Homerton College, Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards Future related activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Music, empathy and cultural understanding |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Keynote address at International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Seoul, South Korea, 7 August 2014 Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.icmpc.org/icmpc_upcoming_conference.html |
| Description | Musical Performance as Creative Practice. Talk presented in University of Cambridge Alumni Festival. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards Future related activity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | New work, old instruments: At His Majesty's Pleasure - a collaboration between Martyn Harry and His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts'. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards. There is increasing interest in understanding creative processes in contemporary music, taking advantage of the living presence of the principal agents, and investigating some of the changing roles and functions that are involved. This paper contributes to this line of research, but examines the unusual case of the commissioning of a new work by an ensemble specialising in historical performance. We present some of the findings of a study of the rehearsal, recording sessions and live performance of 'At His Majesty's Pleasure', a contemporary piece by composer Martyn Harry for His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts, an ensemble attuned to the performance practices of music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What are the demands that such a piece makes in terms of playing techniques, tuning, coordination and aesthetic attitude? What are the risks and opportunities of such a commission for the identity and reputation of the ensemble itself? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.cmpcp.ac.uk/conference3.html |
| Description | Private view: researchers as audience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards. Unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.cmpcp.ac.uk/Composers_performers_audiences.pdf |
| Description | The price of literacy: performing practice today |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lecture given at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge by Professor Richard Taruskin on 19 November 2010 Future related activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Yundi in Cambridge: Chopin Masterclass and Musical Dialogue |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Masterclass given by the international concert pianist Li Yundi, followed by 'Musical Dialogue' (public interview/discussion) with John Rink Future related activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |