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Silent music reading: Amateur musicians’ visual processing and descriptive skill
Musicae Scientiae, 2013This article addresses the silent reading of music notation, combining eye-movement measures with a semantic analysis of readers’ verbal descriptions of the notated music. A group of musical novices ( n = 16) and two groups of musical amateurs (less experienced n = 11 and more experienced n = 10) participated in three separate measurement sessions ...
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Amateur Musicians in the Nineteenth Century
By carefully piecing together musical and documentary evidence, Amateur Musicians in the Nineteenth Century reveals the musicians that have so far been largely invisible in histories of music. Musical amateurs occupy an indistinct, low-status, peripheral place in musical life today.openaire +1 more source
Courts in Musical Hearings: some thoughts from an amateur musician
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2019For all musicians there is a need for guidelines to avoid deafness from musical instruments. The author, an amateur musician and Convener of an orchestra was asked to provide guidance. What follows is a superficial and perhaps naive interim review that should hopefully be of assistance and, more importantly, encourage those with more profound knowledge
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Negotiating leisure constraints: the case of an amateur musician with epilepsy
Leisure Studies, 2017AbstractThe purpose of this case study was to identify the negotiation strategies employed by an epileptic amateur musician engaged in serious leisure to overcome leisure constraints. Data were collected by semi-structured interview, observation and informal interaction. Results revealed that the subject employed various cognitive (i.e.
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Engaging preservice music teachers with adult amateur musicians
International Journal of Community Music, 2012The purpose of this report is to describe a developing model for inclusion of community music as part of the process of music teacher training at an American university. Included in the narrative is an overview of the Congaree New Horizons Band (CNHB) in Columbia, SC, followed by a description of the inclusion of adult music learners in preservice ...
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Frederick’s Story: A Portrait of an Adult Amateur Musician
International Journal of Music EducationThe purpose of this study was to explore why an amateur musician decided to begin playing the flute as an adult, their motivation for devoting their leisure time to music making, and their musical identity. Serious leisure theory served as the theoretical framework for this study.
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