"Following his investigation into experimental music and sound recording in Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs turns his attention to the live performance of improvised music with an altogether different form of writing. Now that the audience is assembled is a book-length …
This Companion addresses fundamental questions about the nature of music from a psychological perspective. Music cognition is presented as the field that investigates the psychological, physiological, and physical processes that allow music to take place, seeking to explain how …
This Companion addresses fundamental questions about the nature of music from a psychological perspective. Music cognition is presented as the field that investigates the psychological, physiological, and physical processes that allow music to take place, seeking to explain how …
Why is it that well-prepared, talented, hardworking, and intelligent performers find their performance and self-esteem undermined by the fear of memory slips, technique failures, and public humiliation? In Managing Stage Fright: A Guide for Musicians and Music Teachers, author J…
Managing Stage Fright: A Guide for Musicians and Music Teachers is a practical and enlightening guide to overcoming one of the most common and debilitating psychological phenomena experienced by performers. Musician, psychologist, and psychoanalyst Julie Jaffee Nagel delves deep…
Why is it that well-prepared, talented, hardworking, and intelligent performers find their performance and self-esteem undermined by the fear of memory slips, technique failures, and public humiliation? In Managing Stage Fright: A Guide for Musicians and Music Teachers, author J…
Performance Anxiety Strategies: A Musician's Guide to Managing Stage Fright offers readers an approachable, comprehensive reference guide to the current research on music performance anxiety and stage fright therapies. The authors present relevant and noteworthy research and ins…
"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.
Music performance anxiety has long frustrated the artistic community and, while tricks and folk remedies abound, a comprehensive plan to solve this problem has remained elusive. Accomplished violinist Casey McGrath combines her experiences with the research of Karin S. Hendricks…
Performance Anxiety Strategies: A Musician's Guide to Managing Stage Fright offers readers an approachable, comprehensive reference guide to the current research on music performance anxiety and stage fright therapies. The authors present relevant and noteworthy research and ins…
