La Interaction between chamber musicians from the second person perspective of mental attribution

Abstract

Chamber music proposes a shared experience, requiring a high degree of communication and understanding between musicians, in order to achieve a quality musical result. Interaction in chamber music ensembles has been studied from various fields of knowledge (cognitive neuroscience, psychology of music or musicology, among others) and from different approaches. However, bibliographic review shows that although interaction in chamber music ensembles has motivated the work of numerous researchers, there are still certain aspects of musical practice related to musician's experience in interaction, the attributions they perform and interaction dynamics that have not yet been addressed. This paper investigates chamber music interaction as a communicational process between musicians from the Second Person Perspective of mental attribution. This perspective focuses on a particular type of interaction (direct, face-to-face and bodily) and it is considered that it can offer answers to understand certain aspects of communication between musicians that have not yet been explored.