Exploring interaction in chamber music ensembles by means of group exercises

Abstract

The purpose of my independent project is to look more closely at interaction/communication and contact in small chamber music groups and find out if there is a way to improve that aspect of playing together with the help of exercises, that I have found in the literature about small group pedagogy, through my own experiences during studies and interviews for my bachelor’s thesis. In this project I am bringing different exercises to light with the purpose of adapting them to be used with small chamber music groups. With the chosen exercises I conducted a one-group pretest-posttest research with a duo, documenting, recording and analyzing the results. The most important results show that the selected exercises have a positive effect on many aspects of interaction and contact as well as the musical result.