Leadership dynamics in musical groups: Quantifying effects of musical structure on directionality of influence in concert performance videos.

ABSTRACT: Music ensemble performance provides an ecologically valid context for investigating leadership dynamics in small group interactions. Musical texture, specifically the relative salience of simultaneously sounding ensemble parts, is a feature that can potentially alter leadership dynamics by introducing hierarchical relationships between individual parts. The present study extended previous work on quantifying interpersonal coupling in musical ensembles by examining the relationship between musical texture and leader-follower relations, operationalised as directionality of influence between co-performers' body motion in concert video recordings. It was hypothesised that the directionality of influence, indexed by Granger Causality, would be greater for 'homophonic' textures with a clear dist

SUBMITTER: Sabharwal SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10990194 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature