Musical Expression and Experience (MOVE)

MOVE focuses on individuals' musical experience and artistic creativity from a musicological perspective. This research is concerned with art as a source of knowledge and experience, as well as how it is expressed in various contexts. The research projects linked to this theme study different forms of musical expression and artistic creation as activities, processes and meaningful phenomena carried out by humans.

Recent publications:

van Tour, P. (2025) “Two Neapolitan Partimento Manuscripts attributed to Giovanni Paisiello.” Thinking Music: Global Sources for the History of Music Theory. Edited by Thomas Christensen, Lester Hu, and Carmel Raz. Chicago: Chicago University Press. In Print.

van Tour, P. (2024) “‘Senza numeri’: The Pedagogy of the Unfigured and Underfigured Bass in Eighteenth-Century Italian Sources,” in: Historical Performance. Accepted for publication.

van Tour, P. (2024) “Luca Sorgo’s Lessons in Counterpoint and Fugue in Eighteenth-Century Dubrovnik.” Project on Luca Sorgo, in collaboration with Nicholas Baragwanath and Jelica Valjalo Kaporelo. On invitation from Jelica Valjalo Kaporelo. Accepted for publication.

van Tour, P. (2024) “Variation Counterpoint in Eighteenth-century Naples and Bologna,” in: The Oxford Handbook of Musical Variation and Thematic Techniques. Edited by Jeffrey Swinkin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. In print.

van Tour, P. (2024) “«Come in uno Specchio»: Counterpoint in Eighteenth-Century Italy and the Instruction through Models,” in: «Sicut in coelo, et in terra»: Commissioning and Production of Sacred Music in Italy (Studies on Italian Music History), edited by Galliano Ciliberti and Thomas Neal (Turnhout: Brepols, 2025). In Print.

van Tour, P. (2024) “Solfeggi as Models for Instruction in Practical Counterpoint and Fugue,” in Music Theory and Analysis (MTA). International Journal of the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory. Volume 11, #I, May 2024, pp. 118–45. Leuven University Press

Lindblad, K. & de Boise, S. (2020). Musical engagement and subjective wellbeing amongst men in the third age. Nordisk tidskrift for musikkterapi - Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 29 (1), 20-38.

Knudsen, P et al. (2019). Anticipation in collaborative music performance using fuzzy systems: a case study. Proceedings of the 31th workshop of the Swedish AI Society (SAIS-2019). arXiv:1906.02155

Volgsten, U. (2019). Fantasy control: Implications for distributed imagination and affect attunement in music and sound. In: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard, Mads Walther-Hansen & Martin Knakkergaard, The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1 (pp. 229-249). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ullsten, A. , Eriksson, M. , Klässbo, M. & Volgsten, U. (2018). Singing, sharing, soothing: Biopsychosocial rationales for parental infant directed singing in neonatal pain management: A theoretical approach. Music & Science, 1, 1-13.