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The Oxford handbook of music performance
\"Volume 1 of the Oxford Handbook of Music Performance is designed around four distinct sections : Development and Learning, Proficiencies, Performance Practices, and Psychology. Chapters cover a range of topics dealing with musical development, talent development, and chapters dealing with learning strategies from a self-directed student learning perspective and high impact teaching mindframes. Essential proficiencies include coverage of effective practice habits, through to the abilities of being able to play by ear, sight-read, improvise, memorize repertoire, and conduct and chapters that detail the highly personalized forms of musical expression that go beyond the printed notation or stylistic convention of the repetoire being performed. Chapters within the Performance Practices section cover some of the most fundamental aspects of performance practices from Baroque through to New Music repertoire and include chapters dealing with how emotions might be generated as a form of historically informed performance practice, and how creativity unfolds in the real-time dynamics of musical performance. The Psychology section concerns characteristics and individual differences in human behavior, cognition, emotion, and wellness. Across chapters in this section, several common threads and themes are evident: Our relationships with music itself and what it means to become and to be a musician, the tensions that can arise between the joy of music and the hard work required to develop musical skills, and the intimate connection between music performance and our social and emotional lives\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Romantic anatomies of performance
Romantic Anatomies of Performance is concerned with the very matter of musical expression: the hands and voices of virtuosic musicians. Rubini, Chopin, Nourrit, Liszt, Donzelli, Thalberg, Velluti, Sontag, and Malibran were prominent celebrity pianists and singers who plied their trade between London and Paris, the most dynamic musical centers of nineteenth-century Europe. In their day, performers such as these provoked an avalanche of commentary and analysis, inspiring debates over the nature of mind and body, emotion and materiality, spirituality and mechanism, artistry and skill. J. Q. Davies revisits these debates, examining how key musicians and their contemporaries made sense of extraordinary musical and physical abilities. This is a history told as much from scientific and medical writings as traditionally musicological ones. Davies describes competing notions of vocal and pianistic health, contrasts techniques of training, and explores the ways in which music acts in the cultivation of bodies..
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Creating from the Body: Gendered Agency in Contemporary Music Performance
This article explores how practices led by female performers can offer a situated model for challenging two deeply entrenched conventions in Western concert music: the ideal of fidelity to the composer’s score and the paradigm of the disciplined yet ostensibly “neutral” performer’s body. Grounded in my artistic practice as a Brazilian-Mexican performer-creator I present four electroacoustic audiovisual works for five-string electric cello developed in collaboration with visual artists Adela Marín and Jessica Rodríguez as part of the collective Féminas Sonoras. Drawing on feminist theory, decolonial thought, and a practice-as-research methodology I explore how aesthetic choices can function as critical tools for reclaiming artistic agency. I introduce the concept of the female sonic body as a situated, culturally inscribed site of authorship and knowledge production. Rather than reproducing dominant paradigms of concert music, the performer-creator practice seeks to re-signify the act of performance as both a feminist and epistemological intervention.
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Performance anxiety strategies : a musician's guide to managing stage fright
\"Presents relevant and noteworthy research and insight into some of the most popular and many lesser-known holistic, exposure, cognitive, and behavioral therapies and medical treatments [for music performance anxiety]--\"Back cover.
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The aesthetics of imperfection in music and the arts : spontaneity, flaws and the unfinished
The aesthetics of imperfection emphasises spontaneity, disruption, process and energy over formal perfection and is often ignored by many commentators or seen only in improvisation.
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The biology of musical performance and performance-related injury
Music performance requires a high degree of physical skill, yet until recently, musical training has paid little attention to the considerable demands made on the mind and body. The Biology of Musical Performance and Performance-Related Injury presents singers and instrumentalists with accurate information on the physical processes that underlie their craft. The book provides a concise overview of the biological principles associated with performance technique while assuming no prior scientific knowledge, making it accessible to both musicians and to health professionals who treat performance-related medical conditions. Author Alan H. D. Watson explains the concepts and techniques of music performance, discussing themes such as posture and the back; movements of the arm and hand and associated problems; breathing in singers and wind players; the embouchure and respiratory tract in wind playing; the larynx and vocal tract in singers; the brain and its role in skill acquisition and aural processing; and stress and its management. Watson offers performers and teachers the tools they need to create a rational approach to the development and communication of technique. He also provides insight into the origins of performance-related injury, helping to reduce the risk of such problems by encouraging a technique that is sustainable in the long term. Each chapter includes several illustrations and an extensive bibliography for further reading. To support the text, a CD-Rom is included, featuring original diagrams that clearly illustrate the relevant aspects of body structure and function, explaining and illuminating key concepts through an extensive set of animations, sound files, and videos.
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