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Playing-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders, Risk Factors, and Treatment Efficacy in a Large Sample of Oboists

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
ObjectivesDuring their lifetimes, a majority of musicians experience playing-related musculoskeletal disorders (PRMD). PRMD prevalence is tied to instrument choice, yet most studies examine heterogeneous groups of musicians, leaving some high-risk groups
Heather M. Macdonald   +4 more
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Musica practica according to Roland Barthes

open access: yesMusicologica Brunensia, 2017
The contribution deals with Roland Barthes' musical aesthetics, with his dichotomous view of music – the manual or muscular ("the music one listens to") on the one hand, and the liquid or effusive ("the music one plays") on the other.
Jozef Cseres
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Audiovisual correspondence between musical timbre and visual shapes.

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014
This article investigates the cross-modal correspondences between musical timbre and shapes. Previously, such features as pitch, loudness, light intensity, visual size, and color characteristics have mostly been used in studies of audio-visual ...
Mohammad eAdeli   +2 more
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Influence of ergonomic layout of musician chairs on posture and seat pressure in musicians of different playing levels.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
IntroductionMusicians often perform in forced postures over a long period of time, which in the worst case may lead to playing-related musculoskeletal disorders.
Daniela Ohlendorf   +5 more
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Music performance anxiety: New insights from young musicians

open access: yesAdvances in Cognitive Psychology, 2006
Music performance anxiety (MPA) is a relatively neglected psychological phenomenon that rarely appears in mainstream psychological journals or textbooks.
Margaret S. Osborne, Dianna T. Kenny
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Making myself understood: perceived factors affecting the intelligibility of sung text

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
Singing is universal, and understanding sung words is thought to be important for many listeners’ enjoyment of vocal and choral music. However, this is not a trivial task, and sung text intelligibility is probably affected by many factors.
Philip eFine, Jane eGinsborg
doaj   +1 more source

The 500th anniversary of the first music printing: a history of patronage and taste in the early years

open access: yesMuzikološki Zbornik, 2001
Ottaviano Petrucci published his first book of music, the Odhecaton A, sometime in the summer of 1501, 500 years ago. Since it was the first, Petrucci faced a number of special problems.
Stanley Boorman
doaj   +1 more source

Tonal and segmental perception in native Cantonese-speaking musicians, amateur musicians and non-musicians

open access: yes, 2015
Tone matching, judgment and segmental judgment tasks conducted in silent reading and listening conditions are devised to test the hypothesis that musical training improves tone and segmental (onset, rime) perception in a tone language, Cantonese, in native Cantonese-speaking individuals.
openaire   +2 more sources

The musician's brain: functional imaging of amateurs and professionals during performance and imagery

open access: yesNeuroImage, 2003
We compared activation maps of professional and amateur violinists during actual and imagined performance of Mozart's violin concerto in G major (KV216). Execution and imagination of (left hand) fingering movements of the first 16 bars of the concerto were performed.
Martin Lotze   +4 more
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