The Musician S Mind

Author : Lynn Helding
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538109960

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Where does learning begin and how is it sustained and stored in the brain? For musicians, these questions are at the very core of their creative lives. Cognitive and neuroscience have flung wide the doors of our understanding, but bridging the gap between research data and music-making requires a unique immersion in both worlds. Lynn Helding presents a symphony of discoveries that illuminate how musicians can optimize their mental wellbeing and cognitive abilities. She addresses common brain myths, motor learning research and the concept of deliberate practice, the values of instructional feedback, technology’s role in attention disorders, the challenges of parenting young musicians, performance anxiety and its solutions, and the emerging importance of music as a social justice issue. More than an exploration of the brain, The Musician’s Mind is an inspiring call for artists to promote the cultivation of emotion and empathy as cornerstones of a civilized society. No matter your instrument or level of musical ability, this book will reveal to you a new dynamic appreciation for the mind’s creative power.

Author : David Sulzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0231193785

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Music, Math, and Mind by David Sulzer Pdf

This book offers a lively exploration of the mathematics, physics, and neuroscience that underlie music. Written for musicians and music lovers with any level of science and math proficiency, including none, Music, Math, and Mind demystifies how music works while testifying to its beauty and wonder.

Author : Daniel Levitin
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0241987350

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This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin Pdf

Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand it, and its role in human life

Author : Laurie Riley
Publisher : Harps Nouveau
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0967277906

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Body, Mind and Music by Laurie Riley Pdf

Author : David Schroeder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315282558

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From the Minds of Jazz Musicians by David Schroeder Pdf

From the Minds of Jazz Musicians: Conversations with the Creative and Inspired celebrates contemporary jazz artists who have toiled, struggled and succeeded in finding their creative space. The volume was developed through transcribing and editing selected interviews with 35 jazz artists, conducted by the author between 2009 and 2012 in New York City, with a historical essay on each artist to provide context. The interviews feature musicians from a broad range of musical styles and experiences, ranging from Gerald Wilson, born in 1918, to Chris Potter, born in 1971. Topics range from biographical life histories to artists’ descriptions of mentor relationships, revealing the important life lessons they learned along the way. With the goal to discover the person behind the persona, the author elicits conversations that speak volumes on the creative process, mining the individualistic perspectives of seminal artists who witnessed history in the making. The interviews present the artists’ candid and direct opinions on music and how they have succeeded in pursuing their unique and creative lives.

Author : Antoinette Feleky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004333477

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The Musician's Mind by Antoinette Feleky Pdf

Author : Lesley Sisterhen McAllister
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780810882935

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The Balanced Musician by Lesley Sisterhen McAllister Pdf

Organized into four main parts, this book first explores the mind-body connection and then separately discusses the mind, body, and soul of musicians, scholars, performers, and teachers of all voices and instruments. With terms, questions for reflection, and assignments at the...

Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307373496

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Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks Pdf

What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capable of uncontrollable and sometimes destructive force? Music has no concepts, it lacks images; it has no power of representation, it has no relation to the world. And yet it is evident in all of us–we tap our feet, we keep time, hum, sing, conduct music, mirror the melodic contours and feelings of what we hear in our movements and expressions. In this book, Oliver Sacks explores the power music wields over us–a power that sometimes we control and at other times don’t. He explores, in his inimitable fashion, how it can provide access to otherwise unreachable emotional states, how it can revivify neurological avenues that have been frozen, evoke memories of earlier, lost events or states or bring those with neurological disorders back to a time when the world was much richer. This is a book that explores, like no other, the myriad dimensions of our experience of and with music.

Author : Jeanne Shapiro Bamberger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Music
ISBN : 0674576063

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The Mind Behind the Musical Ear by Jeanne Shapiro Bamberger Pdf

Bamberger focuses on the earliest stages in the development of musical cognition. Beginning with children's invention of original rhythm notations, she follows eight-year-old Jeff as he reconstructs and invents descriptions of simple melodies.

Author : David Schroeder
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000966046

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From the Minds of Jazz Musicians, Volume II by David Schroeder Pdf

From the Minds of Jazz Musicians, Volume II is a follow-up to Volume I’s celebration of contemporary jazz artists who have toiled, struggled and succeeded in finding their creative space. Volume II was developed through transcribing and editing selected interviews with 29 jazz artists, conducted by the author since 2011, along with a historical essay on each artist. The interviews feature musicians from a broad range of musical styles and experiences, with their beginnings ranging from the 50s to the early 80s. Topics range from biographical life histories to descriptions of mentor relationships, revealing the important life lessons they learned along the way. With the goal to discover the person behind the persona, the author elicits conversations that speak of the creative process, mining the individualistic perspectives of seminal artists who witnessed history in the making. By comparing and contrasting each artist’s perspective to discover similarities in their career paths. these volumes are an important research tool for students and academics, offering direct information from leading figures in the jazz world.

Author : Dylan van der Schyff,Andrea Schiavio,David J. Elliott
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780262362108

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Musical Bodies, Musical Minds by Dylan van der Schyff,Andrea Schiavio,David J. Elliott Pdf

An enactive account of musicality that proposes new ways of thinking about musical experience, musical development in infancy, music and evolution, and more. Musical Bodies, Musical Minds offers an innovative account of human musicality that draws on recent developments in embodied cognitive science. The authors explore musical cognition as a form of sense-making that unfolds across the embodied, environmentally embedded, and sociomaterially extended dimensions that compose the enactment of human worlds of meaning. This perspective enables new ways of understanding musical experience, the development of musicality in infancy and childhood, music’s emergence in human evolution, and the nature of musical emotions, empathy, and creativity. Developing their account, the authors link a diverse array of ideas from fields including neuroscience, theoretical biology, psychology, developmental studies, social cognition, and education. Drawing on these insights, they show how dynamic processes of adaptive body-brain-environment interactivity drive musical cognition across a range of contexts, extending it beyond the personal (inner) domain of musical agents and out into the material and social worlds they inhabit and influence. An enactive approach to musicality, they argue, can reveal important aspects of human being and knowing that are often lost or obscured in the modern technologically driven world.

Author : John A. Sloboda
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046383777

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The Musical Mind by John A. Sloboda Pdf

What are the mental processes involved in listening to, performing, and composing music? What is involved in "understanding" a piece of music? How are such skills acquired? Questions such as these form the basis of the cognitive psychology of music. The author addresses these questions by surveying the growing experimental literature on the subject. The author does not simply review existing research, but takes a critical look at what has been achieved in the subject, introducing such topics as composition and musical skill in non-literate cultures. He draws freely on his own knowledge and experience as a practicing musician as well as a psychologist to provide an overview that is scholarly and also accessible to the general reader. -- From publisher's description.

Author : Barry Green,W. Timothy Gallwey
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1986-02-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780385231268

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The Inner Game of Music by Barry Green,W. Timothy Gallwey Pdf

Suggests techniques for overcoming self-consciousness and improving musical performances, shares a variety of exercises, and includes advice on improving one's listening skills.

Author : Gerald Klickstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199711291

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The Musician's Way : A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness by Gerald Klickstein Pdf

In The Musician's Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest research with his 30 years of professional experience to provide aspiring musicians with a roadmap to artistic excellence. Part I, Artful Practice, describes strategies to interpret and memorize compositions, fuel motivation, collaborate, and more. Part II, Fearless Performance, lifts the lid on the hidden causes of nervousness and shows how musicians can become confident performers. Part III, Lifelong Creativity, surveys tactics to prevent music-related injuries and equips musicians to tap their own innate creativity. Written in a conversational style, The Musician's Way presents an inclusive system for all instrumentalists and vocalists to advance their musical abilities and succeed as performing artists.

Author : John Sloboda
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198530137

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Exploring the Musical Mind by John Sloboda Pdf

Brings together in one volume important material from various hard-to-locate sources, giving the reader access to a body of work from one of the founders of music psychology Complements and updates Sloboda's 'The musical mind'