Shifting the focus of attention between levels of musical structure
| Autor: | Elizabeth R. Valentine, Aaron Williamon, John D. Valentine |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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| Zdroj: | European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 14:493-520 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0635 0954-1446 |
| Popis: | This paper examines the practice and performance of musicians in two separate studies. In the first, 22 pianists, classified into four levels of skill, were asked to learn and memorise an assigned composition by J.S. Bach (different for each level). From cassette recordings of the pianists' practice, values for the mean and standard deviation of “segment lengths” were obtained, as well as a derived coefficient of variation. Following the learning process, the pianists performed their composition in a recital setting and were interviewed about their performance strategies. In the second study, two expert pianists were asked to learn and memorise an assigned composition by Bach and to provide verbal protocols of their performance of the piece under two separate conditions. Analyses of the data from Study 1 revealed that pianists at all levels of skill used longer practice segments as practice progressed. Moreover, they increasingly interspersed short and long segments across the practice process. Analyses o... |
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