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What type of practice makes a musician perfect? What sort of child is most likely to succeed on a musical instrument? What practice strategies yield the fastest improvement in skills such as sight-reading, memorization, and intonation? Scientific and psychological research can offer answers to these and other questions that musicians face every day. In The Science and Psychology of Music Performance, Richard Parncutt and Gary McPherson assemble relevant current research findings and make them accessible to musicians and music educators. This book describes new approaches to teaching music, learning music, and making music at all educational and skill levels. Each chapter represents the collaboration between a music researcher (usually a music psychologist) and a performer or music educator. This combination of expertise results in excellent practical advice. Readers will learn, for example, that they are in the majority (57%) if they experience rapid heartbeat before performances; the chapter devoted to performance anxiety will help them decide whether beta-blocker medication, hypnotherapy, or the Alexander Technique of relaxation might alleviate their stage fright. Another chapter outlines a step-by-step method for introducing children to musical notation, firmly based on research in cognitive development. Altogether, the 21 chapters cover the personal, environmental, and acoustical influences that shape the learning and performance of music.
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What type of practice makes a musician perfect? What sort of child is most likely to succeed on a musical instrument? What practice strategies yield the fastest improvement in skills such as sight-reading, memorization, and intonation? Scientific and psychological research can offer answers to these and other questions that musicians face every day. In The Science and Psychology of Music Performance, Richard Parncutt and Gary McPherson assemble relevant current research findings and make them accessible to musicians and music educators. This book describes new approaches to teaching music, learning music, and making music at all educational and skill levels. Each chapter represents the collaboration between a music researcher (usually a music psychologist) and a performer or music educator. This combination of expertise results in excellent practical advice. Readers will learn, for example, that they are in the majority (57%) if they experience rapid heartbeat before performances; the chapter devoted to performance anxiety will help them decide whether beta-blocker medication, hypnotherapy, or the Alexander Technique of relaxation might alleviate their stage fright. Another chapter outlines a step-by-step method for introducing children to musical notation, firmly based on research in cognitive development. Altogether, the 21 chapters cover the personal, environmental, and acoustical influences that shape the learning and performance of music.
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instrumental music practice, choir acoustics, skilled memory theory, instrumental music students, tempered standard, blowing pressure, better sight readers, preperformance routine, intrinsic pitch, onset noise, global tempo, rehearsal atmosphere, performing arts medicine, pitch accuracy, music psychologists, legato articulation, conducting gestures, music perception, expressive timing, subglottal pressure, target pitch, pitch matching, local tempo, music education, piano touch Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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instrumental music practice, choir acoustics, skilled memory theory, instrumental music students, tempered standard, blowing pressure, better sight readers, preperformance routine, intrinsic pitch, onset noise, global tempo, rehearsal atmosphere, performing arts medicine, pitch accuracy, music psychologists, legato articulation, conducting gestures, music perception, expressive timing, subglottal pressure, target pitch, pitch matching, local tempo, music education, piano touch Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Journal of Research, Society of America, Journal of the Acoustical, Oxford University Press, Academic Press, Dissertation Abstracts International, Medical Problems of Performing Artists, Journal of Educational Psychology, United States, Clarendon Press, Englewood Cliffs, Musicae Scientiae, Psychological Review, Cambridge University Press, Journal of Experimental, Keele University, Journal of Band Research, San Diego, Iowa City, Norges Musikkhogskole, Royal Swedish Academy of Music, University of Chicago Press, Journal of Voice, San Francisco New!
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- Psychology of Music by Carl E. Seashore on 6 pages
- LOUIS ARMSTRONG AN AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY (GREAT ACHIEVERS) (Great Achievers Series) by Collier on page 21, and page 27
- The Psychology of Music, Second Edition (Cognition and Perception) by Diana Deutsch on page 112, and page 215
- Stg 1d Happy Birthday Is (Work and Play/Literacy 2000 Stage 1) by Avelyn Davidson on page 104, and page 112
- Performing Arts Medicine by Robert Thayer Sataloff on page 352, and Back Matter
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- The Reflective Conservatoire: Studies in Music Education (Guildhall Research Studies) (Guildhall Research Studies) by George Odam on 4 pages
- Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction: 5th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2003, Genova, Italy, April 15-17, 2003, Selected Revised ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) by Antonio Camurri in Back Matter
- The Music Practitioner: Research for the Music Performer, Teacher, and Listener by Jane W. Davidson on page 24
- Snakes, Snails and C Major Scales: Songs for Children with Fingerstyle Guitar Accompaniment (Accompaniment CD Included) by Kevin Cooper in Front Matter
- Psychology for Performing Artists by Glenn Wilson in Back Matter
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