ABSTRACT
Frederick Seddon identifies that both verbal and nonverbal communication may exist within musical ensembles. The categories of verbal and nonverbal communication, although ostensibly evident, are problematic. Although verbal communication has been concretely identified within the realm of human interaction, nonverbal communication has only been identified as communication through exchanges that are not verbal. Bearing in mind the mixed use of verbal and nonverbal communication in ensemble interaction, this chapter explores the primary models of communication currently used in the field of performance studies. To begin, it is necessary to examine how communication has been modelled thus far in performance studies. Drawing heavily upon sociological and psychological literature, this area of performance research attempts to find parallels between social and musical interaction. As opposed to the linguistic model of communication in performance, the gestural model does not attempt to match gestures with lexical correlates.
