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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974291203321

Titolo

The science & psychology of music performance : creative strategies for teaching and learning / / edited by Richard Parncutt & Gary E. McPherson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-19-988136-7

1-280-65514-3

0-19-518501-3

0-19-535017-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ParncuttRichard <1957->

McPhersonGary

Disciplina

781.4

Soggetti

Music - Performance - Psychological aspects

Music - Instruction and study

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Part I The Developing Musician; 1. Musical Potential; 2. Environmental Influences; 3. Motivation; 4. Performance Anxiety; 5. Brain Mechanisms; 6. Music Medicine; Part II Subskills of Music Performance; 7. From Sound to Sign; 8. Improvisation; 9. Sight-Reading; 10. Practice; 11. Memory; 12. Intonation; 13. Structural Communication; 14. Emotional Communication; 15. Body Movement; Part III Instruments and Ensembles; 16. Solo Voice; 17. Choir; 18. Piano; 19. String Instruments; 20. Wind Instruments

21. Rehearsing and ConductingContributors; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Music educators and practicing musicians have failed to benefit as much as they could from the past two decades of music psychology research. In this volume, Parncutt and McPherson propose to improve the situation by describing new approaches, informed by recent psychological research, to teaching music, learning music, and making music at all educational levels. Each chapter represents the



collaboration between a music psychologist and a music educator. The articles begin by outlining music-psychological issues that are probably unfamiliar to musicians and music educators. Then, they propose