The Science & Psychology of Music Performance. Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning

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 teaching strategies and materials inspired by the psychologists' findings. The volume's twenty-one articles cover the broad issues of "the developing musician", "subskills of musical performance", and "instruments and ensembles".

CONTENIDO:

Introduction
I- THE DEVELOPING MUSICIAN
1- Musical Potential
2- Environmental Influences
3- Motivation
4- Performance Anxiety
5- Brain Mechanism
6- Music Medicine

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

III- INSTRUMENTS AND ENSEMBLES
16- Solo Voice
17- Choir
18- Piano
19- String Instruments
20- Wind Instruments
21- Rehearsing and Conducting

Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index