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Music performance as knowledge acquisition: a review and preliminary conceptual framework
Mark Reybrouck1,2, Andrea Schiavio3
1Musicology Research Unit, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Frontiers in Psychology
|February 23, 2024
Summary
Playing a musical instrument enhances knowledge construction through embodied, sensorimotor experiences. This centripetal approach integrates internal and external factors for real-time learning.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Science
- Music Psychology
- Embodied Cognition
Background:
- Traditional views of music performance focus on motor output.
- Recent theories emphasize sensorimotor coupling and embodied cognition.
Purpose of the Study:
- To examine how playing a musical instrument contributes to knowledge construction.
- To review literature on music performance from an embodied perspective.
- To propose a centripetal model of music performance.
Main Methods:
- Narrative literature review.
- Analysis of theoretical frameworks on motor learning and sensorimotor integration.
- Juxtaposition of established and contemporary views in embodied cognitive science.
Main Results:
- Music performance is framed as a centripetal process, not just centrifugal.
- Playing music involves dynamic integration of internal and external factors.
- Music performance is a form of knowledge acquisition via sensorimotor experience.
Conclusions:
- Advocates for a centripetal approach to understanding music performance.
- Highlights music performance as a dynamic, embodied knowledge-building process.
- Challenges the view of music performance as solely output-driven.
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