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Knee Flexion of Saxophone Players Anticipates Tonal Context of Music
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Nádia Moura; Marc Vidal; Ana M. Aguilera; João Paulo Vilas-Boas; Sofia Serra; Marc Leman – npj Science of Learning, 2023
Music performance requires high levels of motor control. Professional musicians use body movements not only to accomplish and help technical efficiency, but to shape expressive interpretation. Here, we recorded motion and audio data of twenty participants performing four musical fragments varying in the degree of technical difficulty to analyze…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Musical Instruments, Motion
The Relationship between High-Level Violin Performers' Movement and Evaluators' Perception of Musicality
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Bugaj, Katarzyna A.; Mick, James; Darrow, Alice-Ann – String Research Journal, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine possible relationships between the extent of high-level violin performers' movement during performance and evaluators' perceptions of their musicality. Stimuli were 10 excerpts of solo violin performances from the 2015 "Tadeusz Wronski International Violin Competition for Solo Violin," selected to…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musical Instruments, Correlation, Student Evaluation
Exploring the Influence of Body Awareness on Instrumental Sound
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Dora, Claudia; Conforti, Simone; Güsewell, Angelika – International Journal of Music Education, 2019
Results from recent research have demonstrated positive effects of somatic approaches, such as the Feldenkrais Method, somaesthetics, and body mapping in the field of music. However, the direct impact of such approaches on instrumental sound has not been studied so far. The present pilot study was thus designed to investigate the influence of…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Human Body, Foreign Countries, Music Education
The Association of Music Experience, Pattern of Practice and Performance Anxiety with Playing-Related Musculoskeletal Problems (PRMP) in Children Learning Instrumental Music
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Ranelli, Sonia; Smith, Anne; Straker, Leon – International Journal of Music Education, 2015
There is evidence supporting the social and cognitive benefits of music education. However aspects of music practice, such as an increase in frequency and intensity of practice, are associated with playing-related musculoskeletal problems in adult musicians, though with limited evidence in children. The aim of this study was to describe the music…
Descriptors: Music Education, Drills (Practice), Performance, Anxiety
Perceived Musculoskeletal Discomfort among Elementary, Middle, and High School String Players
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Russell, Joshua A.; Benedetto, Rachel L. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2014
The purposes of this study were to identify the body regions where young string players report experiencing musculoskeletal discomfort and explore factors that may impact their perceived discomfort. A purposive yet nonprobability sample of elementary (n = 101), middle school (n = 97), and high school (n = 159) students participated in the study by…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students, Musical Instruments
Origins of the Human Pointing Gesture: A Training Study
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Matthews, Danielle; Behne, Tanya; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Science, 2012
Despite its importance in the development of children's skills of social cognition and communication, very little is known about the ontogenetic origins of the pointing gesture. We report a training study in which mothers gave children one month of extra daily experience with pointing as compared with a control group who had extra experience with…
Descriptors: Socialization, Social Cognition, Control Groups, Language Acquisition