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Musical Excellence: Strategies and Techniques to Enhance Performance 1st Edition

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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 and teaching. Part 1, 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 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 ordered from the more physical to the psychological to the pharmacological; however, they all address the 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 to give 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.
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    1st
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    Oxford University Press
  5. Publication date
    August 26, 2004
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6.75 x 1 x 9.5 inches
  8. Print length
    320 pages
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"Musical Excellence will serve as a valuable reference source for all those involved in the quest for enhanced performances. It should be very much welcomed by the music profession, including performers, teachers, students and researchers, as it offers a valuable foundation to inform empirically the training of practitioners for the achievement of artistic potential."--British Journal of Music Education

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Includes practical recommendations drawn from the findings of scientific research, assisting musicians in enhancing their practice and performance and in managing performance anxiety. Also serves as a source for new approaches for those teaching and training performers.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (August 26, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198525354
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198525356
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 1 x 9.5 inches
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Aaron Williamon is Professor of Performance Science at the Royal College of Music (RCM) and Director of the Centre for Performance Science, a partnership of the RCM and Imperial College London. His research focuses on skilled performance and applied scientific initiatives that inform music learning and teaching, as well as the impact of music and the arts on society. He is founder of the International Symposium on Performance Science, chief editor of Performance Science (a Frontiers journal), and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and the UK’s Higher Education Academy (FHEA). In 2008, he was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Music (HonRCM).

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Naomi
5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2010
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I especially appreciate the chapter on memorizing music as an aide in teaching my piano students how to memorize for a recital. The techniques on how to deal with performance gitters is very useful, too. A companion book by A.C. Lehmann, J.A. Sloboda, and R.H. Woody is Psychology for Musicians: Understanding and Acquiring the Skills .
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Mary Beth Ierulli
5.0 out of 5 stars Music Book
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2013
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This is the third and final part of the Christmas "wish list" for my great niece, so, again, the other review works here.
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Swami B
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for musicians
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2008
I found this guide immensely helpful in improving my level of musicianship. This book pulls together hundreds of academic articles and books on various topics that affect the activity of making music, and distills those resources into a concise, very readable form. I particularly found the chapters titled "Measuring performance enhancement in music," "Strategies for individual practice," "Strategies for memorizing music," and "Strategies for sight-reading and improvising music" to be particularly helpful, as they offered a wide variety of suggestions on making improvements to musical performance.

It also includes a section on physical fitness that discusses the various ways that musicians can address issues of muscle and joint pain, anxiety, and other ailments that may result from repetitive stress and poor technique. It also discusses the much-disputed Alexander Technique, which has many adherents in the performance arts.

Many of the ideas can be found in other texts, and not all the ideas may be helpful to any particular individual, but this singular book is well researched and is a must-read for any musician. I found it much more comprehensize than the books "The Inner Game of Music" and "What Every Pianist Needs to Know About the Body."
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Darryl Edwards
5.0 out of 5 stars An Important and Effective Resource
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2004
This book is what music teachers and performers have been waiting for. I am grateful for the diversity and integrity of the research in it. The rehearsal and performance strategies it offers are ideally specific and get remarkable results. I cannot think of a performer or music educator for whom the information in this book would not be of great benefit. Hats off to the authors for this landmark publication!
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Jaime Mendonça Alvarez
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente livro
Reviewed in Spain on February 21, 2024
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Excelente livro
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Leonardo Souza
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente !!
Reviewed in Brazil on February 12, 2016
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O livro é tão show de bola com muitas dicas valiosas, com pesquisas de alta qualidade e eficácia que acabei comprando, parcelado, mas comprei. rsrs Nunca pensei que fosse cometer tal loucura.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Inutile
Reviewed in Italy on September 8, 2015
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Interessante da un punto di vista teorico, ma non porta risultati utilizzabili. Non noioso, ma comunque una lettura evitabile. Riporta più che cosa i musicisti fanno (ciascuno una cosa diversa) che invece che cosa dovrebbero fare.
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Hugh Cowell
5.0 out of 5 stars Good informative book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2014
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This book is a collection of excellent chapters by well-known researchers in music psychology.
The content and information is very useful.
Good referencing.
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Marta G.
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfecto estado
Reviewed in Spain on May 16, 2016
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Perfecto estado. Un libro interesante para aquellos que quieran perfeccionar su perfil profesional. Es un libro de calidad y garantía.
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