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The science & psychology of music performance : creative strategies for teaching and learning / edited by Richard Parncutt & Gary E. McPherson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Performance--Psychological aspects.
- Music.
- Music--Instruction and study.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (411 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Science and psychology of music performance
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-988136-7
- 1-280-65514-3
- 0-19-518501-3
- 0-19-535017-0
- OCLC:
- 252620407
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