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When music “flows”. State and trait in musical performance, composition and listening: a systematic review

It is not unusual to experience a sense of total absorption, concentration, action-awareness, distortion of time and intrinsic enjoyment during an activity that involves music. Indeed, it is noted that there is a special relationship between these two aspects (i.e., music and flow experience). In or...

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Autores principales: Chirico, Alice, Serino, Silvia, Cipresso, Pietro, Gaggioli, Andrea, Riva, Giuseppe
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4485232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26175709
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00906
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author Chirico, Alice
Serino, Silvia
Cipresso, Pietro
Gaggioli, Andrea
Riva, Giuseppe
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Cipresso, Pietro
Gaggioli, Andrea
Riva, Giuseppe
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description It is not unusual to experience a sense of total absorption, concentration, action-awareness, distortion of time and intrinsic enjoyment during an activity that involves music. Indeed, it is noted that there is a special relationship between these two aspects (i.e., music and flow experience). In order to deeply explore flow in the musical domain, it is crucial to consider the complexity of the flow experience—both as a “state” and as a “trait.” Secondly, since music is a multifaceted domain, it is necessary to concentrate on specific music settings, such as (i) musical composition; (ii) listening; and (iii) musical performance. To address these issues, the current review aims to outline flow experience as a “trait” and as a “state” in the three above-mentioned musical domains. Clear and useful guidelines to distinguish between flow as a “state” and as a “trait” are provided by literature concerning flow assessment. For this purpose, three aspects of the selected studies are discussed and analyzed: (i) the characteristics of the flow assessments used; (ii) the experimental design; (iii) the results; and (iv) the interrelations between the three domains. Results showed that the dispositional approach is predominant in the above-mentioned settings, mainly regarding music performance. Several aspects concerning musical contexts still need to be deeply analyzed. Future challenges could include the role of a group level of analysis, overcoming a frequency approach toward dispositional flow, and integrating both state and dispositional flow perspectives in order to deepen comprehension of how flow takes place in musical contexts. Finally, to explain the complex relationship between these two phenomena, we suggest that music and flow could be seen as an emergent embodied system.
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spelling pubmed-44852322015-07-14 When music “flows”. State and trait in musical performance, composition and listening: a systematic review Chirico, Alice Serino, Silvia Cipresso, Pietro Gaggioli, Andrea Riva, Giuseppe Front Psychol Psychology It is not unusual to experience a sense of total absorption, concentration, action-awareness, distortion of time and intrinsic enjoyment during an activity that involves music. Indeed, it is noted that there is a special relationship between these two aspects (i.e., music and flow experience). In order to deeply explore flow in the musical domain, it is crucial to consider the complexity of the flow experience—both as a “state” and as a “trait.” Secondly, since music is a multifaceted domain, it is necessary to concentrate on specific music settings, such as (i) musical composition; (ii) listening; and (iii) musical performance. To address these issues, the current review aims to outline flow experience as a “trait” and as a “state” in the three above-mentioned musical domains. Clear and useful guidelines to distinguish between flow as a “state” and as a “trait” are provided by literature concerning flow assessment. For this purpose, three aspects of the selected studies are discussed and analyzed: (i) the characteristics of the flow assessments used; (ii) the experimental design; (iii) the results; and (iv) the interrelations between the three domains. Results showed that the dispositional approach is predominant in the above-mentioned settings, mainly regarding music performance. Several aspects concerning musical contexts still need to be deeply analyzed. Future challenges could include the role of a group level of analysis, overcoming a frequency approach toward dispositional flow, and integrating both state and dispositional flow perspectives in order to deepen comprehension of how flow takes place in musical contexts. Finally, to explain the complex relationship between these two phenomena, we suggest that music and flow could be seen as an emergent embodied system. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4485232/ /pubmed/26175709 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00906 Text en Copyright © 2015 Chirico, Serino, Cipresso, Gaggioli and Riva. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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When music “flows”. State and trait in musical performance, composition and listening: a systematic review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4485232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26175709
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