Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience

Appendix 2.05 Experimental listening Hawkins (^1)
Experimental listening 12 Oct 2011. EC’s preparation
Coleman Hawkins, Saxophone: Body and Soul
Recorded 11 Oct 1939
Abbreviations: open: open listening. foc: music-focused listening.
herm: hermeneutical listening.
EC’s preliminary observations and reactions, new questions, new tasks, and problems:
1st and 2nd listening : Open listening (intro + two choruses) open/herm
The sax tone displays an intimate, caressing, persuasive or imploring nature
New question: If this is speech, what does he say?
New task: Listen only for background
3rd listening: Listen for form (intro + two choruses) foc
Intro AABA AABA, 8-bar periods
New tasks: Describe as movement (gliding, jumping....)
Describe as voice (exclamations, whispering...)
Subsequent listenings: Only intro + the first chorus
4th listening: Listen only for background foc
New task: listen for piano, bass, drums separately
5th listening: Listen for the piano. Are there other instruments in the background? foc
One chord per beat. Difficult to hear details due to mediocre recording quality
New question: Is there a climax?
New task: Describe as bodily gestures
6th-7th listening: Listen for the bass foc
The bass plays on the 1st and 3rd beat. Tone quality: A soft thud
Appendix 2.04 Experimental listening Hawkins