Yoshikawa2026
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Yoshikawa2026 |
| Author(s) | Yuki Yoshikawa |
| Title | Interaction analysis of tuning activities: achieving pitch matching |
| Editor(s) | Peter Tolmie, Dave Randall, Mark Rouncefield, Andy Crabtree |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Music |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2026 |
| Language | English |
| City | Abingdon, Oxon |
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| Pages | 52–66 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003358886-4 |
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| Book title | Ethnomethodological Studies of Music |
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Abstract
This chapter aims to clarify a method by which musicians achieve pitch matching through their everyday tuning activities from the perspective of interaction analysis. It is shown that tuning is not merely a technical task but a social activity in which musicians adjust their mutual understanding through interaction. In this chapter, video footage of a rehearsal of a seventeenth-century Italian trio, obtained through fieldwork, is used to analyze the tuning process between a violinist and a harpsichordist. As a result of the analysis, it is revealed that a concise expressive format – ‘note + note + silence’ (n+n+s), in which the same note is played twice and followed by silence – is employed to realize the completion of tuning, by examining settings in which this format is subject to refusals or withdrawals by the participants. Through this investigation, the chapter respecifies pitch matching – traditionally a topic of psychological research – as a socially organized interaction that is publicly recognizable as a practical accomplishment.
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