This book illustrates the acquisition of knowledge in a musician's performative practice, and how this can contribute to the development of Artistic Research. Using a broad understanding of 'knowledge, ' the first part of the book presents aspects of the practitioner knowledge a musician develops through daily exercises and performances. Technical and practical skills, creativity and music reading are central topics.

Part II describes four different methodologies of knowledge accumulation. First is the hypothetico-deductive method (music as object). Then the...

This book illustrates the acquisition of knowledge in a musician's performative practice, and how this can contribute to the development of Artistic Research. Using a broad understanding of 'knowledge, ' the first part of the book presents aspects of the practitioner knowledge a musician develops through daily exercises and performances. Technical and practical skills, creativity and music reading are central topics.

Part II describes four different methodologies of knowledge accumulation. First is the hypothetico-deductive method (music as object). Then the...