Thinking and Playing Music (eBook)

Intentional Strategies for Optimal Practice and Performance

Sheryl Iott (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
286 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-5532-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Thinking and Playing Music: Intentional Strategies for Optimal Practice and Performance distills cutting-edge teaching and learning methods for musicians of all levels, investigating topics in cognitive science that apply directly to musical development. Containing over one-hundred musical examples, many from the standard piano repertoire, Sheryl Iott uses accessible language to impart practical suggestions that anyone can incorporate into their practice.Maximizing efficiency and effectiveness while cultivating an observant, experimental approach can help musicians make the most of their time and potential while avoiding tension, injury, and burnout. Aligning efforts with inherent mental processes can make learning faster, deeper, and more secure while freeing up attentional space, allowing for creative, personal expression in performance. The book addresses:Beginning musicianship, covering relevant cognition topics such as language acquisition, aural processing and development of audiation while cultivating a playful, relaxed approach to the instrumentThe intermediate musician, presenting more advanced cognitive topics such as visual processing, chunking, and early problem solvingThe advanced musician, addressing increased demands on working and long-term memory, how to maximize transfer, a creative approach to problem solving, and strategies to tackle the most difficult repertoireAlso included are sample lesson plans, workshop templates, and sample practice assignments.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 188 Illustrations including: - 120 Black & White Illustrations; - 22 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 40 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs; - 6 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
• Schlagworte: applied music • brain on music • Brain science • cognitive science • how to practice • Integrated Practice • learning • Mindfulness • Music Cognition • music lessons • Music skills • music teaching • Music Training • Piano • Piano pedagogy • piano repertoire • piano studies • piano teaching • Practice • Psychology
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-5532-X / 153815532X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-5532-5 / 9781538155325