ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of recent research on cognitive resources in expressive music playing, with a view to identifying future opportunities for research. The cognitive timing model is based on events generated by an internal clock mechanism; the embodied model is based on interactions between bodily movements and environmental cues. The model defines two control processes underlying timing and temporal coordination in expressive music performance. One relies on sensorimotor resources, using forward prediction models and emergent timing as a basis for controlling musical phrases and tone production. The other takes cognitive resources as the basis for control. The chapter talks about the use of cognitive resources for encoding expressiveness. It gives an overview of recent work that aims at testing the hypothesis. The crux of an empirical validation seems to depend on two factors: the ability to increase cognitive load during music playing, and the ability to measure differences in encoded musical expressiveness.
