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Amateur Ensemble Music Making: Between Self and Community, and Experience and Result
Cataloged as a 2026 preprint; interviews were collected in 2020.
Amateur musicians describe tensions between personal goals, collective experience and the work of sustaining an ensemble.
- Setting
- Related music & arts
- Kind of evidence
- Qualitative & case studies
- Review extent
- Selected sections reviewed
What was studied
A preprint using 22 German interviews collected in 2020, spanning vocal and instrumental ensembles.
What it contributes
The accounts connect individual aspirations and group outcomes, including the demands placed on volunteers.
Where the evidence stops
This is a preprint and a selected pandemic-period sample. It does not establish later participation or causal retention effects. The repository link’s availability has not been confirmed.
About this review
This is a targeted review of selected sections. The record should not be read as an appraisal of the entire work.
Source note updated September 7, 2026. Read our approach to evidence.