The Tangible in Music: The Tactile Learning of a Musical Instrument

By combining the findings made in music psychology and performative ethnomusicology, Marko Aho shows how playing a musical instrument, and the pleasure musicians get from it, emerges from an intimate dialogue between the personally felt body and the sounding instrument. An introduction to the general aspects of the tactile resources of musical instruments, musical style and the musician is followed by an analysis of the learning process of the regional kantele style of the Perho river valley in Finnish Central Ostrobothnia.

• | Author: Marko Aho
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Sep 16, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 166 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1472439570
• | ISBN-13: 9781472439574