Communicative interaction in spontaneous music and speech

TY - CHAP

T1 - Communicative interaction in spontaneous music and speech

AU - Hawkins, Sarah

AU - Cross, Ian

AU - Ogden, Richard

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - Speech and music are both communicative media, but though scholars have compared their formal properties, research into parameters that influence everyday talking and the group performance of music (as opposed to formal writ- ten or read language, and presentational music) is only in its infancy. Starting from the position that speech and music share many communicative functions, albeit often in different proportions, we have begun to examine conversation and joint music-making in a search for common processes underlying successful spoken conversation and joint musical action, compared with unsuccessful interactions. The present paper first examines musical and spoken communication from a number of perspectives, and then reports a study which explores the hypothesis that when interactants make successful music together, they entrain such that spoken and musical pulses are mutually supportive: more closely aligned in time than when the music is less successful.

AB - Speech and music are both communicative media, but though scholars have compared their formal properties, research into parameters that influence everyday talking and the group performance of music (as opposed to formal writ- ten or read language, and presentational music) is only in its infancy. Starting from the position that speech and music share many communicative functions, albeit often in different proportions, we have begun to examine conversation and joint music-making in a search for common processes underlying successful spoken conversation and joint musical action, compared with unsuccessful interactions. The present paper first examines musical and spoken communication from a number of perspectives, and then reports a study which explores the hypothesis that when interactants make successful music together, they entrain such that spoken and musical pulses are mutually supportive: more closely aligned in time than when the music is less successful.

KW - music

KW - interaction

KW - conversation

KW - joint action

KW - conversation analysis

KW - phonetics

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-1-84890-124-7

T3 - Communication, Mind and Language

SP - 285

EP - 329

BT - Language, music and interaction.

A2 - Orwin, Martin

A2 - Howes, Christine

A2 - Kempson, Ruth

PB - College Publications

CY - London

ER -