{"id":6848,"date":"2011-09-01T16:15:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T23:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=6848"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:54:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:54:23","slug":"the-eyes-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/01\/the-eyes-have-it\/","title":{"rendered":"the eyes have it"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"There’s a fascinating new study<\/a> with findings that suggest that the visual appearance of a musician can affect the listener’s perception of their performance.<\/p>\n

As part of a 2009 music psychology seminar at a major music academy, they gathered 35 students \u2014 all accomplished musicians \u2014 for a study of the visual impact of piano performances.<\/p>\n

The participants viewed videos featuring four student musicians at the keyboard. Specifically, they watched two renditions of Chopin\u2019s\u00a0Waltz in A-Flat Major<\/em>, and two performances of a capriccio by Brahms.<\/p>\n

Unbeknownst to them,\u00a0the soundtracks for the videos were recorded by the same pianist. He was seen in one of the four videos; for the other three, the on-screen performer was actually a body double.<\/p>\n

For both the Chopin and Brahms works, one of the \u201cperformers\u201d was male, the other female. After watching both renditions, participants rated what they heard using five-point scales to judge the players on such elements as confidence, precision, drama, virtuosity and expressivity.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact the soundtracks were identical, \u201cNearly all participants identified differences between the pairs of video recordings,\u201d the researchers report. Duplicating the results of the 1990 study, the \u201cperformances\u201d by the male pianists were perceived as more precise, while the female pianist\u2019s \u201cperformance\u201d of Chopin was judged as more dramatic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a fascinating new study with findings that suggest that the visual appearance of a musician can affect the listener’s perception of their performance. As part of a 2009 music psychology seminar at a major music academy, they gathered 35 students \u2014 all accomplished musicians \u2014 for a study of the visual impact of piano […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[148,115,657],"tags":[2793,2794,2792],"class_list":["post-6848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-music","category-research-study","tag-musical-performance","tag-study","tag-visual-cues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1Ms","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2089,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/09\/the-littered-landscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":6848,"position":0},"title":"the littered landscape","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 9, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"After a bit of blow back from my response to David Stabler's blog post about some restrictions on use of audio\/video clips of union musicians for a feature article of Tomas Svoboda's world premiere this week, I decided to follow some well-intended advice from one of my colleagues and get\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "audio"","block_context":{"text":"audio","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19153,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/22\/this-friday-feldman\/","url_meta":{"origin":6848,"position":1},"title":"this friday: feldman","author":"Charles Noble","date":"July 22, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"This week's Portland Social Distance Ensemble production. 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