School of Arts and Creative Technologies
Caroline Owen
PhD by research
Thesis
Thesis
Sound and sense: An exploratory study of children’s subjective responses to music
- Supervisor: Dr Andrea Schiavio
We know that humans begin to respond to music even before birth, but how does young children’s awareness of what music makes them feel or imagine emerge and develop? In a longitudinal study, his research explores how children aged five to eleven years describe their subjective responses to music and how this evolves ontogenetically.
Biography
Biography
Caroline studied on the Joint Course at the University of Manchester and the RNCM and subsequently in Paris, winning awards for clarinet playing and composition, including the RNCM Chamber Music Prize in 1993. She represented the UK at the 1997 meeting of the Jeunesses Musicales in Brussels. Her career has involved teaching woodwind instruments and piano, conducting, examining and leadership roles, freelance performing work as a clarinettist and educational concerts throughout the UK with Chamberhouse Winds. Recent solo engagements include concerti by Mozart, Weber, Copland, Ross and Debussy, and recitals at South Hill Park, Norden Farm Centre for the Arts and Wallingford Winter Festival.
Inspired and intrigued by the emotional effects of music experienced personally and described by fellow musicians and listeners, she returned to study in 2019, completing her MA in Music Psychology at the University of York in 2020 and beginning her PhD studies in 2021.
Research
Research
Subjective responses to music, music education, music performance, evolution of music and musicality
Publications
Publications
CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS
ICMPC16-ESCOM11 2021 – The role of harmony in musical affect (Poster presentation)
MHPC22 – Attentional focus in piano-playing: A replication study (Oral presentation)
University of York PG Forum, March 2023 - Putting musical feelings into words: Developing a new response instrument for young listeners (Oral presentation)
Music Cognition Matters (talk and podcast), University of York, 10 May 2023 - Sound and sense: An exploratory study of children's subjective responses to music
Musical Minds, Konstanz, July 2023 - Putting musical feelings into words: An exploratory study of children’s music-evoked experiences (Oral presentation)
ICMPC17-APSCOM7, Tokyo, August 2023 - Putting musical feelings into words: Developing a new response instrument for young listeners (Oral presentation)
GAPS2, York, September 2023 - Putting musical feelings into words: Children’s verbal descriptions of music-evoked experiences
SysMus23, Sheffield, October 2023 - Putting musical feelings into words: Children’s verbal descriptions of music-evoked experiences
PAPER UNDER REVIEW (2023)
Owen, C., Egermann, H., & Schiavio, A. (Under review) Putting musical feelings into words: Children’s verbal descriptions of music-evoked experiences
