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The Oxford handbook of music performance

Title: The Oxford handbook of music performance [electronic resource] / editor: Gary E. McPherson.
Publication: New York : Oxford University Press, 2021-2022.

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McPherson, Gary.

Description

1 online resource (2 volumes (xxii, 714, xxiii, 621 pages)) : illustrations.

Summary

"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"--
"Volume 2 of the Oxford Handbook of Music Performance is designed around four distinct sections: Enhancements, Health and Wellbeing, Science, and Innovations. Chapters on the popular Feldenkrais method and Alexander technique open the volume, and these lead to chapters on peak performance and mindfulness, stage behavior, impression management and charisma, enhancing music performance appraisal, and how to build a career and the skills and competencies needed to be successful. The section dealing with health and wellbeing surveys the brain mechanisms involved in music learning and performing and musical activities in people with disabilities, performance anxiety, diseases and health risks in instrumentalists, hearing and voice, and finally, a discussion of how to promote a healthy related lifestyle. The first six chapters of the Science section cover the basic science underlying the operation of wind, brass, string instruments, and the piano, and two chapters covering the solo voice and vocal ensembles. The final two chapters explain digital musical instruments and the practical issues that researchers and performers face when using motion capture technology to study movement during musical performances. The four chapters of the Innovations section address the types of technological and social and wellbeing innovations that are reshaping how musicians conceive their performances in the twenty-first century"--

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Oxford handbooks series

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Oxford handbook of music performance (Online)

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Includes index.

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Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Introduction / Gary E. McPherson -- Volume 1. Development & Learning, Proficiencies, Performance Practices & Psychology. Section 1. Development and Learning / Section Editor Gary E. McPherson. The origins of musical expertise / Alexander P. Burgoyne, David Z. Hambrick & Lauren Julius Harris ; Musical potential, giftedness and talent development / Gary E. McPherson, Jennifer Blackwell & Sue Hallam ; Readiness for learning to perform / Jennifer Blackwell & Gary E. McPherson ; Talent development in music / Daniel Müllensiefen, Aaron Kozbelt, Paula M. Olszewski-Kubilius, Rena Subotnik, Frank Worrell, & Franzis Preckel ; Self-directed learning strategies : Self-directed learning strategies / Kelly A. Parkes ; High impact teaching mindframes / Gary E. McPherson & John Hattie -- Section 2. Proficiencies / Section Editor Peter Miksza. Practice / Peter Miksza ; Playing by ear / Warren Haston & Gary E. McPherson ; Sight-reading / Katie Zhukov & Gary E. McPherson ; Improvisation / Raymond MacDonald ; Memorization / Jane Ginsborg ; Conducting / Steven Morrison & Brian A. Silvey ; Musical expression / Emery Schubert ; Body movement / Jane Davidson -- Section 3. Performance Practices / Section Editor Jane Davidson ; Performance practices for Baroque and Classical repertoire / Dorottya Fabian ; Performance practices for Romantic and Modern repertoire / Neal Peres Da Costa ; New music : Performance institutions and practices / Ian Pace ; Emotion and performance practices / Stephanie Rocke, Jane Davidson & Frederic Kiernan ; Musical creativity in performance / Dylan van der Schyff & Andrea Schiavio ; Performing in the studio / Mark Slater ; Diversity, inclusion and empowerment / Tawnya Smith & Karin Hendricks -- Section 4. Psychology / Section Editor Paul Evans. Self-regulated learning music microanalysis / Gary E. McPherson ; Self-determination theory / Paul Evans & Richard Ryan ; Personality and individual differences / Emese Hruska & Arielle Bonneville-Roussy ; Buoyancy, resilience, and adaptability / Andrew Martin & Paul Evans ; Identity and the performing musician / Jane Oakland & Raymond MacDonald ; Synesthesia and music performance / Solange Glasser.
Volume 2. Enhancements, Health & Well-Being, Science & Innovations. Section 5. Enhancements / Section Editor Reinhard Kopiez. The Feldenkrais method / Stephen Paparo ; The Alexander technique / Elizabeth Valentine, Judith Kleinman & Peter Buckoke ; Peak performance / Johannes Hatfield, Glyn Roberts, & Pierre-Nicolas Lemyre ; Mindfulness / Frank Diaz ; Stage behaviour, impression management and charisma / Friedrich Platz & Reinhard Kopiez ; Enhancing music performance appraisal / Gary E. McPherson & Emery Schubert ; Creating sustainable performance careers / Karen Burland & Dawn Bennett -- Section 6. Health & Wellbeing / Section Editor Eckart Altenmüller. Brain mechanisms of musical learning and performing / Eckart Altenmüller ; Musical activities in people with disabilities / Maria Schuppert & Eckart Altenmüller ; Music Performance anxiety / Margaret Osborne & Jennifer Kirsner ; Diseases and health risks in instrumentalists / Claudia Spahn ; Hearing and voice / Bernard Richter ; Promoting health related lifestyle / Liliana S. Araújo & Claudia Spahn -- Section 7. Science / Section Editor Jim Woodhouse. Winds / Joe Wolfe ; String instruments - plucked / Jim Woodhouse ; String instruments - bowed / Jim Woodhouse ; Piano / Richard Parncutt & Werner Goebl ; Solo voice / Graham Welch ; Vocal ensembles / Harald Jers & Sten Ternström ; Instrumental ensembles / Laura Bishop & Peter Keller ; Electronic instruments / Chris Chafe ; Motion capture of music performances / Marcelo M. Wanderley -- Section 8. Innovations / Section Editor Aaron Williamon. Technological Innovations. Synchronous online learning, teaching, and performing / Tania Lisboa, Pétur Jónasson & Carol Johnson ; Technology enhanced learning of performance / Rafael Ramirez & George Waddell ; Social and Wellbeing Innovations. Interdisciplinary experiential learning / Terry Clark & Aaron Williamon ; Fostering musicians' wellbeing / Sara Ascenso, Antonella Delle Fave, Aaron Williamon & Rosie Perkins.

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