Matthew Paul Mazanek
Research Interests
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Published Written Outputs
Mazanek, M. P. (2025). Integrating the Popular in Nineteenth-Century Improvisation: Immaterial labour and learning. Performance Research, 29(6), 17–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2024.2537574
Mazanek, M.P. (2024) Improvisation Pedagogy in Nineteenth-Century Guitar Education. In: Figured Bass Accompaniment in Europe, edited by Livio Ticli, Turnhout, Belgium, Brepols.
Mazanek, M.P (2021) Implicit curriculum: Improvisation Pedagogy in Guitar Methods 1760-1860. DMusPerf Dissertation. Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Practice-Led and Practice-Based Projects
Bromley, R. and Mazanek, M.P., (2026) Creative Use of Guitar Tuning Research Challenge. In: 21st Century Music Practice Research Centre,
Paper Presentations and Lecture Recitals
Mazanek, M.P. (2023) Adapting Schema Analysis for Instrumental Pedagogy: A Preliminary Study in 19th Century Guitar Preludes. In: Doctors in Performance Festival Conference, Royal Academy of Music, London, England, September.
Mazanek, M.P. (2023) ‘Exercising One’s Fantasies’: Nineteenth-Century Improvisation, Pleasure and Social Control. In: Music and Pleasure Before the Law, Dublin, Ireland, June.
Mazanek, M.P. (2022) Improvisation and Grammar Constructions in the Nineteenth-Century Method books for Guitar and Harp. In: Galant Schemata in Theory & Practice, International Virtual Conference, recorded presentation, October.
Mazanek, M.P. (2022) ‘Fantasía en Preludiar’: Bass Lessons, Solfege and Improvisation in the Guitar Methods, 1770-1840. In: Guitar Foundation of America International Convention: Scholarly Track Day, International Virtual Conference, June.
Mazanek, M.P. (2022) Implicit Curriculum: Improvisation Pedagogy in the Guitar Methods, 1760-1860. In: Musicking: Culturally Informed Performance Practices, Eugene, Oregon, United States, April.
