Projekte Hochschule Luzern
Reviews Reviewed (subprojekt HSLU)
Most classical music criticism today found in music magazines and newspapers is about concert performances and recordings, and concertgoers and consumers look to reviewers for guidance in their selection. But to what extent do reviews actually offer reliable critical judgements of performances? When a critic judges that a particular performance is good, bad, or better or worse than some other performance, what kinds of reasons does she or he use to justify their value judgement?
The proposed research aims to examine critical evaluations of recordings and their justifications. In phase I, a large corpus of reviews is made accessible and scrutinized. These reviews were published in major music magazines, such as The Gramophone, and they discuss recorded interpretations of Beethoven piano sonatas. In phase II the results of this examination will be set against the background of the actual recordings and the listener’s experiences of them: selected recorded performances will be analyzed (e.g. with LARA); music students, piano teachers, music critics and typical concertgoers will participate in listening and evaluation tasks.
Projektleiter/in
Olivier Senn, Details
Projektmitarbeiter/innen
Elena Alessandri, Details
Florian Hoelscher
Beteiligte Organisationen
Institute for Music Performance Studies, www.hslu.ch/musik/m-forschung-entwicklung/m-musik-imps.htm
Beteiligte externe Organisationen
Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana
Royal College of Music, London, rcm.ac.uk/
Olivier Senn, Details
Projektmitarbeiter/innen
Elena Alessandri, Details
Florian Hoelscher
Beteiligte Organisationen
Institute for Music Performance Studies, www.hslu.ch/musik/m-forschung-entwicklung/m-musik-imps.htm
Beteiligte externe Organisationen
Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana
Royal College of Music, London, rcm.ac.uk/
Projektstart
01.10.2010
01.10.2010
Projektende
31.12.2012
31.12.2012
