Research on the role of ballet pianist is limited. A gap in literature concerns ways which dance instructors and accompanists ‘make sense’ their collaboration. The working relationship between a teacher musician class was investigated. researcher, pianist, conducted semi-structured, in-depth interview with ballet-teacher colleague who also composer. data analysed using Interpretative Phenomenol...

This study examined the relation between long-term music training and child development based on 250 Chinese elementary school students' academic development of first language (L1), second language (L2), and mathematics. We found that musician children outperformed non-musician children only on musical achievement and second language development. Additionally, although music training appeared t...

In this paper, we discuss a number of issues related to the design of evaluation tests for comparing interactive music systems for improvisation. Our testing procedure covers rehearsal and performance environments, and captures the experiences of a musician/participant as well as an audience member/observer. We attempt to isolate salient components of system behavior, and test whether the music...

Coordinated action between music orchestra performance, driven by a conductor, is a remarkable instance of interaction/communication. However, a rigorous testing of inter-individual coordination in an ecological scenario poses a series of technical problems. Here we recorded violinists' and conductor's movements kinematics in an ecological interactive scenario. We searched for directed influenc...