Musical Excellence
Strategies and Techniques to Enhance Performance
Seiten
2004
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-852535-6 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-852535-6 (ISBN)
Offers performers, teachers, and researchers practical guidance for enhancing performance and managing the stress that typically accompanies performance situations. Drawing together the findings of pioneering initiatives from across the arts and sciences, this book is useful for those involved in music research, education, and performance.
Musical Excellence offers performers, teachers, and researchers, new perspectives and practical guidance for enhancing performance and managing the stress that typically accompanies performance situations. It draws together, for the first time in a single collection, the findings of pioneering initiatives from across the arts and sciences. Specific recommendations are provided alongside comprehensive reviews of existing theory and research, enabling the practitioner to place the strategies and techniques within the broader context of human performance and encouraging novel ways of conceptualizing music making and teaching.
Part I, Prospects and Limits, sets out ground rules for achieving musical excellence. What roles do innate talent, environmental influences, and sheer hard work play in attaining eminence? How can musicians best manage the physical demands of a profession that is intrinsically arduous, throughout a career that can literally span a lifetime? How can performers, teachers, and researchers effectively assess and reflect on performance enhancement for themselves, their colleagues, and their students?
Part II, Practice Strategies, presents approaches for increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of practice. These are examined generally for the individual and ensembles and specifically for the tasks of memorizing, sight-reading, and improvising music. Musicians spend vast amounts of time and energy acquiring and refining their skills, but are there particular rehearsal strategies that they can employ to produce better performance results or to achieve the same results more quickly? What implication does existing knowledge of human information processing and physical functioning have for musical learning and practice?
Part III, Techniques and Interventions, introduces scientifically validated methods for enhancing musical achievement, ordered from the more physical to the psychological to the pharmacological; however, they all address issues of both mental and physical significance for the musician. Collectively, they stand as clear evidence that applied, cross-disciplinary research can facilitate musicians' strive for performance excellence.
Throughout, the book highlights ways for musicians to make the most of their existing practice, training, and experience and gives them additional tools for acquiring and developing new skills. Each chapter is underpinned by physical and psychological principles relevant to all performance traditions that demand dedication and resilience, unique artistic vision, and effective communication.
Musical Excellence offers performers, teachers, and researchers, new perspectives and practical guidance for enhancing performance and managing the stress that typically accompanies performance situations. It draws together, for the first time in a single collection, the findings of pioneering initiatives from across the arts and sciences. Specific recommendations are provided alongside comprehensive reviews of existing theory and research, enabling the practitioner to place the strategies and techniques within the broader context of human performance and encouraging novel ways of conceptualizing music making and teaching.
Part I, Prospects and Limits, sets out ground rules for achieving musical excellence. What roles do innate talent, environmental influences, and sheer hard work play in attaining eminence? How can musicians best manage the physical demands of a profession that is intrinsically arduous, throughout a career that can literally span a lifetime? How can performers, teachers, and researchers effectively assess and reflect on performance enhancement for themselves, their colleagues, and their students?
Part II, Practice Strategies, presents approaches for increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of practice. These are examined generally for the individual and ensembles and specifically for the tasks of memorizing, sight-reading, and improvising music. Musicians spend vast amounts of time and energy acquiring and refining their skills, but are there particular rehearsal strategies that they can employ to produce better performance results or to achieve the same results more quickly? What implication does existing knowledge of human information processing and physical functioning have for musical learning and practice?
Part III, Techniques and Interventions, introduces scientifically validated methods for enhancing musical achievement, ordered from the more physical to the psychological to the pharmacological; however, they all address issues of both mental and physical significance for the musician. Collectively, they stand as clear evidence that applied, cross-disciplinary research can facilitate musicians' strive for performance excellence.
Throughout, the book highlights ways for musicians to make the most of their existing practice, training, and experience and gives them additional tools for acquiring and developing new skills. Each chapter is underpinned by physical and psychological principles relevant to all performance traditions that demand dedication and resilience, unique artistic vision, and effective communication.
PART I - PROSPECTS AND LIMITS ; 1. A guide to enhancing musical performance ; 2. General perspectives on achieving musical excellence ; 3. Managing the physical demands of musical performance ; 4. Measuring performance enhancement in music ; PART II - PRACTICE STRATEGIES ; 5. Strategies for individual practice ; 6. Strategies for ensemble practice ; 7. Strategies for memorizing music ; 8. Strategies for sight-reading and improvising music ; PART III - TECHNIQUES AND INTERVENTIONS ; 9. Physical fitness ; 10. Alexander technique ; 11. Physiological self-regulation: Biofeedback and neurofeedback ; 12. Mental skills training ; 13. Feedback learning of musical expressivity ; 14. Drugs and musical performance ; Epilogue: a note on future directions for enhancing musical performance
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.6.2004 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | numerous figures |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 168 x 239 mm |
| Gewicht | 540 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-852535-4 / 0198525354 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-852535-6 / 9780198525356 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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