To reach the highest standards of instrumental performance, several years of sustained and focused learning are required. This requires perseverance, commitment, and opportunities to learn and practise, often in a collective musical environment. This book brings together a wide …
"What's So Important About Music Education? addresses the history of rationales provided for music education in the United States. J. Scott Goble explains how certain factors stemming from the nation's constitutional separation of church and state, its embrace of democracy and c…
Argues for the importance of musical activity in human life and for the importance of music in education. This book presents a model for teaching the musical practices of the nation's constituent cultural groups in schools in terms of their respective cultural meanings.
Musicians, dancers and athletes spend a tremendous amount of time and effort preparing for performance in the hope of success, aiming for certainty, flexibility and expressiveness. Their use of visualization, verbal labels, muscle energy, and emotion is often based upon intuitio…
Musicians, dancers and athletes spend a tremendous amount of time and effort preparing for performance in the hope of success, aiming for certainty, flexibility and expressiveness. Their use of visualization, verbal labels, muscle energy, and emotion is often based upon intuitio…
Studio-based instrumental learning
by Burwell, Kim
fromSEMPRE studies in the psychology of music