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3. Aesthetic Experiences of Contemporary Music from the Perspectives of a Composer, a Performer, and a Musicologist

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Title3. Aesthetic Experiences of Contemporary Music from the Perspectives of a Composer, a Performer, and a Musicologist
ContributorSanela Nikolić(author)
Ivana Miladinović Prica(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0389.03
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0389/chapters/10.11647/obp.0389.03
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightSanela Nikolić; Ivana Miladinović Prica;
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-06-20
Long abstractThis chapter addresses the music-related knowledge and aesthetic experience of contemporary classical music from the perspectives of three music experts involved in a specific piece of music―performer, composer, and musicologist. Participants reflected on their emotional and cognitive processes and aesthetic responses to the music they are intimately familiar with and their narratives were analysed using Interpretative phenomenological analysis. The findings are congruent with previous research, where the aesthetic experiences induced by contemporary music were related to the cognitive mastering of properties of the musical structure. Furthermore, the analysis showed two types of expertise contributing to the aesthetic experience of contemporary music: theoretical knowledge―learning and acquisition of knowledge about music structure and style; and experiential knowledge―which comes from a person’s mastery of skills in appreciating music as a result of long-term, in-depth involvement with music.
Page rangepp. 47–72
Print length26 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Sanela Nikolić

(author)
Associate Professor at University of Arts in Belgrade
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3061-9317
https://www.fmu.bg.ac.rs/en/

Sanela Nikolić has a PhD in Theory of Arts and Media and is an Associate Professor of Applied Aesthetics at the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade. She is the editor of the AM Journal of Art and Media Studies and was the International Association for Aesthetics Delegate-at-Large (2019–22). She is the author of the two books. Her fields of interest include avant-garde art schools and practices; applied aesthetics as a critical history of the humanities; interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in the humanities; and digital humanities. She is a member of the Regional Network Psychology and Music (RNPaM).

Ivana Miladinović Prica

(author)
Assistant Professor at University of Arts in Belgrade
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9041-7840

Ivana Miladinović Prica, PhD is a musicologist and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade. She is also the board secretary of the bilingual journal New Sound International Journal of Music. Her current research focuses on the neo-avantgarde and experimental practices in American, European, and Serbian contemporary music.

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