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An experimental investigation of musical character portrayed by piano versus harpsichord performances of a J. S. Bach excerpt

dc.contributor.author Schubert, Emery en_US
dc.contributor.author Fabian, Dorottya en_US
dc.contributor.other MacKinlay, Elizabeth en_US
dc.contributor.other Collins, Denis en_US
dc.contributor.other Owens, Samantha en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T13:52:41Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T13:52:41Z
dc.date.issued 2005 en_US
dc.description.abstract The study examines the difference in musical expression (worded in terms of emotional character), if any, between harpsichord and piano performances of Variation 7 from J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations. Commercial recordings were used, 22 harpsichord versions and 12 piano versions, covering a period from 1933 to 2000. 98 undergraduate music students rated the recordings by selecting up to 3 adjectives to describe the musico-emotional character projected by the performance. Piano versions tended to be rated as more lyrical. This result aligns with another study that found that listeners judged piano version to be more “beautiful” (Gotlieb and Konecni 1985). The harpsichord versions were judged to express a greater variety and more aroused musical characters than those on the piano. Further research is needed to determine other factors beside instrument timbre that may contribute to perceived musical character. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 1-904303-50-1 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/41536
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.publisher Cambridge Scholars Press en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.subject.other piano en_US
dc.subject.other timbre en_US
dc.subject.other harpsichord en_US
dc.subject.other baroque music en_US
dc.title An experimental investigation of musical character portrayed by piano versus harpsichord performances of a J. S. Bach excerpt en_US
dc.type Book Chapter en
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unsw.publisher.place Newcastle, UK en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 70-84 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartoftitle Aesthetics and Experience in Music Performance en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Schubert, Emery, English, Media, & Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Fabian, Dorottya , English, Media, & Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school School of the Arts & Media *
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