Expert Pianists’ Practice Perspectives : A Production and Listening Study
Publiceringsår
2021
Upphovspersoner
Loimusalo, Nina Johanna; Huovinen, Erkki
Abstrakt
The purpose of this study was to investigate how professional pianists practice music for a concert, and whether their individual cognitive orientations in such practice processes can be identified accurately from the resulting performances. In Study I, four pianists, previously found to be skilled music memorizers, practiced and performed a short piece by André Jolivet over the course of two weeks, during which their practice strategies were studied using semi-structured interviews, and analyses of practice diaries, practice activities, and eye-movement data. The results indicate that the pianists used similar basic strategies but had different cognitive orientations, here called “practice perspectives,” consistent with each individual, in that they focused on different kinds of information while practicing. These practice perspectives may be related to skills and habits in using imagery and music analysis, as well as to professional and educational background. In Study II, 34 piano teachers listened to recordings of the concert performances and evaluated them against 12 statements representing the four practice perspectives identified in Study I. The results did not support the prediction that practice perspectives would be correctly detected by listeners. Nonetheless, practice perspectives can be used to highlight potentially vast differences between the ways in which individual professional classical musicians conceptualize music and make it meaningful to themselves and others. They could be used in the context of music education to increase musicians’ knowledge of different practice strategies and the ability to develop their own preferred working methods.
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Jyväskylä universitet
Loimusalo Nina
Publikationstyp
Publikationsform
Artikel
Moderpublikationens typ
Tidning
Artikelstyp
En originalartikel
Målgrupp
VetenskapligKollegialt utvärderad
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Journal
Förläggare
Volym
25
Nummer
4
Sidor
480-508
ISSN
Publikationsforum
Publikationsforumsnivå
2
Öppen tillgång
Öppen tillgänglighet i förläggarens tjänst
Nej
Parallellsparad
Nej
Övriga uppgifter
Vetenskapsområden
Teater, dans, musik, övrig scenkonst
Nyckelord
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Publiceringsland
Förenta staterna (USA)
Förlagets internationalitet
Internationell
Språk
engelska
Internationell sampublikation
Ja
Sampublikation med ett företag
Nej
DOI
10.1177/1029864920938838
Publikationen ingår i undervisnings- och kulturministeriets datainsamling
Ja