Musical excellence : strategies and techniques to enhance 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...
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Oxford :
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2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Prospects and limits
- A guide to enhancing musical performance / Aaron Williamon
- General perspectives on achieving musical excellence / Roger Chaffin and Anthony F. Lemieux
- Managing the physical demands of musical performance / Christopher B. Wynn Parry
- Measuring performance enhancement in music / Gary E. McPherson and Emery Schubert
- Part II. Practice strategies
- Strategies for individual practice / Harald Jorgensen
- Strategies for ensemble practice / Jane W. Davidson and Elaine C. King
- Strategies for memorizing music / Jane Ginsborg
- Strategies for sight-reading and improvising music / Sam Thompson and Andreas C. Lehmann
- Part III. Techniques and interventions
- Physical fitness / Adrian H. Taylor and David Wasley
- Alexander technique / Elizabeth Valentine
- Physiological self-regulation: biofeedback and neurofeedback / John H. Gruzelier and Tobias Egner
- Mental skills training / Christopher Connolly and Aaron Williamon
- feedback learning of musical expressivity / Patrik N. Juslin [and others]
- Drugs and musical performance / Robert West
- Epilogue : a note on future directions for enhancing musical performance / Aaron Williamon.