The Science and Psychology of Music Performance: Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning

by Gary E. McPherson and Richard Parncutt

Book Overview

What type of practice makes a musician perfect? What sort of child is most likely to succeed on a musical instrument? What practice strategies yield the fastest improvement in skills such as sight-reading, memorization, and intonation? Scientific and psychological research can offer answers to
these and other questions that musicians face every day. In The Science and Psychology of Music Performance, Richard Parncutt and Gary McPherson assemble...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195138104
• ISBN13: 9780195138108
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.4"