Musical Expression and Experience (MOVE)
About this group
Group information
Musical Expression and Experience (MOVE) focuses on individuals' musical experiences and artistic creation.
The group conducts research on music as a source of knowledge and experience, and studies artistic expression as human activity, communicative process and meaningful phenomena.
Recent publications:
Volgsten, U. & Zhao, Y. (2025). Attuning to Play: From Being Seized by Music to Ways of Being With. International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, 56(2), pp. 215–234.
van Tour, P. (2025) “Two Neapolitan Partimento Manuscripts attributed to Giovanni Paisiello.” Thinking Music: Global Sources for the History of Music Theory. Edited by Thomas Christensen, Lester Hu, and Carmel Raz. Chicago: Chicago University Press. In Print.
Knudsen, P. (2024). Expanding horizons – ensemble improvisation on 20th-century classical music (video article). I: Ingrid Bjørkøy, Solveig S. Kolaas, Michael F. Duch & Thomas R. Hilder, Utfordringer og muligheter innen musikk og utdanning (ss. 121-128). Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Researchers
Completed projects
- "The Italian Fugue: Investigated through Young Apprentices in Eighteenth-century Naples and Bologna."
- Calling in Kinship
- Dmitry Shostakovich and the Soviet state ideology
- Interactive infant-directed singing as supportive music therapy for premature and term newborns during painful procedures
- Jenny Lind?s time as opera singer mainly during the 1840s
- Older men, music and health
- Preludes and Fermatas: Aspects of Nineteenth Century Piano Improvisation in the Tradition of Carl Czerny and Franz Liszt
- The body, to make and to be in music: A phenomenological study
- The medieval mystery play as an artistic meeting place between popular and spiritual culture