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Music and Shape (2018)
Book
Leech-Wilkinson, D., & Prior, H. M. (Eds.). (2018). Music and Shape. New York: Oxford University Press

Shape is a concept widely used in talk about music, helping musicians in many genres to rehearse, teach and think about what they do. What makes a concept from vision so invaluable to work in sound? Music & Shape reveals the many ways in which shape... Read More about Music and Shape.

Familiarity, schemata and patterns of listening (2013)
Book Chapter
Prior, H. (2013). Familiarity, schemata and patterns of listening. In E. King, & H. M. Prior (Eds.), Music and familiarity: listening, musicology and performance. Routledge

The origins of this work, as in much research, lie in a personal experience. My first exposure to a selection of Schoenberg’s piano works (which happened to be through a recording) had resulted in an ambivalent response, but upon hearing the same rec... Read More about Familiarity, schemata and patterns of listening.

Groove as Familiarity with Time (2013)
Book Chapter
Oliver, R. (2013). Groove as Familiarity with Time. In E. King, & H. M. Prior (Eds.), Music and Familiarity : Listening, Musicology and Performance (239 - 252). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596600

The chapter explores the instrumentalist’s relationship with musical time, arguing that the capacity for groove in solo performance depends upon the musician’s familiarity with stylistically nuanced conceptions of pulse. Much research dealing with gr... Read More about Groove as Familiarity with Time.