Second person atributtions in Jazz improvisation

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https://doi.org/10.24215/18530494e092

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music, second person, jazz improvisation, interaction, second person attributions

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The article translated here aims at identifying the second person attributions carried out by duets of musicians during jazz improvisation and to relate them to the sonic-kinetic features that express the musicians’ attributed intentional states. We conducted a mixed-methods study where duets produced improvisations under different visual and auditory conditions of mutual perception. Results show that (i) musicians mutually attributed musical intentions based on their direct ‘reading’ of the partner’s sonic gestures; (ii) improvisations showed idiosyncratic features that persisted across trials; and (iii) jazz interaction bear similarities with communicative musicality in early infancy: imitation-variation emerges as an indicator of communication between musicians.

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2025-12-10

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Second person atributtions in Jazz improvisation (M. Marchiano & I. C. Martínez, Trans.). (2025). Epistemus. Journal of Studies in Music, Cognition & Culture, 13(2), e092. https://doi.org/10.24215/18530494e092

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