Dispositional and performance-specific music performance anxiety in young amateur musicians [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionResearch on Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) among amateur musicians is of great interest due to inconsistent results in literature. In addition, amateur music represents an important part of musical culture in Germany.
Claudia Spahn +2 more
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Hearing health literacy among professional and amateur musicians [PDF]
Scientific ReportsMusicians create sound that is enjoyable to themselves and their audience, but this same sound also threatens their hearing health due to high sound pressure levels generated by their own and their fellow musicians’ instruments.
Gunter Kreutz +2 more
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Understanding Wellbeing Among College Music Students and Amateur Musicians in Western Switzerland [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Musical performance requires the ability to master a complex integration of highly specialized motor, cognitive, and perceptual skills developed over years of practice.
Roberta Antonini Philippe +2 more
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Online Group Music-Making in Community Concert Bands: Perspectives From Conductors and Older Amateur Musicians [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 At the beginning of the pandemic, many music ensembles had to stop their activities due to the confinement. While some found creative ways to start making music again with the help of technologies, the transition from “real” rehearsals to “online ...
Andrea Creech
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The high prevalence of playing-related musculoskeletal disorders (PRMDs) and its associated factors in amateur musicians playing in student orchestras: A cross-sectional study [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 ObjectiveDespite the high number of amateur musicians in the general population, little is known about the musculoskeletal health of amateur musicians.
Bionka Huisstede, Laura Kok
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The Influence of a Sudden Increase in Playing Time on Playing-Related Musculoskeletal Complaints in High-Level Amateur Musicians in a Longitudinal Cohort Study [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Several studies in the domain of professional musicians describe the relation between playing time and the occurrence of musculoskeletal complaints in professional musicians. To date, no longitudinal cohort study into this relationship has been performed
Laura Kok
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Self Representations and Music Performance Anxiety: A Study With Professional and Amateur Musicians [PDF]
Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2018 Individual, social and situational factors might play an important role on the experience of anxiety during musical performances. The present research focused on the relationship between self-representations, including musical self, and performance ...
Claudia Castiglione +2 more
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A Survey on Hearing Health of Musicians in Professional and Amateur Orchestras
Trends in HearingHearing health, a cornerstone for musical performance and appreciation, often stands at odds with the unique acoustical challenges that musicians face. Utilizing a cross-sectional design, this survey-based study presents an in-depth examination of self ...
Gunter Kreutz +2 more
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Music-related background and experience as correlates of music performance anxiety among Japanese musicians [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyPrior music performance anxiety (MPA) studies have predominantly sampled university music students. Although MPA is recognized as a global concern, evidence from Asia remains limited.
Sakie Takagi +6 more
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Improved effectiveness of performance monitoring in amateur instrumental musicians
Neuropsychologia, 2014 Here we report a cross-sectional study investigating the influence of instrumental music practice on the ability to monitor for and respond to processing conflicts and performance errors. Behavioural and electrophysiological indicators of response monitoring in amateur musicians with various skill levels were collected using simple conflict tasks.
Anahit Mkrtchian
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