Listeners' and Performers' Shared Understanding of Jazz Improvisations.

ABSTRACT: This study explores the extent to which a large set of musically experienced listeners share understanding with a performing saxophone-piano duo, and with each other, of what happened in three improvisations on a jazz standard. In an online survey, 239 participants listened to audio recordings of three improvisations and rated their agreement with 24 specific statements that the performers and a jazz-expert commenting listener had made about them. Listeners endorsed statements that the performers had agreed upon significantly more than they endorsed statements that the performers had disagreed upon, even though the statements gave no indication of performers' levels of agreement. The findings show some support for a more-experienced-listeners-understand-more-like-performers hypothes

SUBMITTER: Schober MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5089999 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature