The Psychology of Music Performance Anxiety

by Dianna Kenny

Why are some performers exhilarated and energized about performing in public, while others feel a crushing sense of fear and dread, and experience public performance as an overwhelming challenge that must be endured? What are the factors that produce such vastly different performance experiences? Why have consummate artists like Frederic Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pablo Cassals, Tatiana Troyanos, and Barbra Streisand experienced such intense music...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199586144
• ISBN13: 9780199586141
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"