Music performance as knowledge acquisition: a review and preliminary conceptual framework

Mark Reybrouck; Andrea Schiavio

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1331806

Music performance as knowledge acquisition: a review and preliminary conceptual framework

Mark Reybrouck, Andrea Schiavio

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Abstract

To what extent does playing a musical instrument contribute to an individual's construction of knowledge? This paper aims to address this question by examining music performance from an embodied perspective and offering a narrative-style review of the main literature on the topic. Drawing from both older theoretical frameworks on motor learning and more recent theories on sensorimotor coupling and integration, this paper seeks to challenge and juxtapose established ideas with contemporary views inspired by recent work on embodied cognitive science. By doing so we advocate a centripetal approach to music performance, contrasting the prevalent centrifugal perspective: the sounds produced during performance not only originate from bodily action (centrifugal), but also cyclically return to it (centripetal). This perspective suggests that playing music involves a dynamic integration of both external and internal factors, transcending mere output-oriented actions and revealing music performance as a form of knowledge acquisition based on real-time sensorimotor experience.

Original language	English
Article number	1331806
Number of pages	17
Journal	Frontiers in Psychology
Volume	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1331806
Publication status	Published - 7 Feb 2024

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