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The Experiences of Mid-career and Seasoned Orchestral Musicians in the UK During the First COVID-19 Lockdown

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
The introduction of social distancing, as part of efforts to try and curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, has brought about drastic disruption to the world of the performing arts.
Susanna Cohen, J. Ginsborg
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Promoting, Developing, and Preserving: Using Performance Award Graded Examinations to Encourage the Performance of Welsh Traditional Music on the 16-String Small Harp

open access: yesКультура і мистецтво у сучасному світі, 2023
The aim of this article as a research paper is to present the initial approach of an action research project undertaken digitally between the International School of Musicians and Derwent Harp School, a collaboration between two neighbouring countries ...
Джун Елізабет Філеті
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Expertise-Related Differences in Cyclic Motion Patterns in Drummers: A Kinematic Analysis

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
BackgroundAt present only little information is available concerning the acquisition of skilled movements in musicians. Although optimally a longitudinal study of changing movement patterns during the process of increasing expertise is required, long ...
Eckart Altenmüller   +2 more
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Characterizing the temporal discrimination threshold in musician’s dystonia

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
The temporal discrimination threshold (TDT) has been established as a biomarker of impaired temporal processing and endophenotype in various forms of focal dystonia patients, such as cervical dystonia, writer’s cramp or blepharospasm.
Friederike Borngräber   +7 more
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Long-Term Muscular Atrophy and Weakness Following Cessation of Botulinum Toxin Type A Injections in the Flexor Digitorum Muscle of Musicians with Focal Hand Dystonia

open access: yesToxins, 2023
The present study assessed muscular atrophy and weakness of the flexor digitorum superficialis (FDS) and profundus (FDP) muscle as possible long-term side effects of botulinum toxin (BoNT) injections in hand dystonia patients after the termination of ...
Christos I. Ioannou   +2 more
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Mechanisms of Music Impact: Autonomic Tone and the Physical Activity Roadmap to Advancing Understanding and Evidence-Based Policy

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Research demonstrates that both music-making and music listening have an ability to modulate autonomic nervous system activity. The majority of studies have highlighted acute autonomic changes occurring during or immediately following a single session of
J. Matt McCrary   +2 more
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The working life of musicians: mapping the work activities and values of early-career pop musicians in the Dutch music industry

open access: yesCreative Industries Journal, 2021
This paper explores the working life of early-career musicians after technological innovations transformed the music industry. Based on in-depth interviews, a diary questionnaire study and post-questionnaire interviews with 17 early-career pop musicians ...
Rick Everts, E. Hitters, Pauwke Berkers
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Determining factors for compensatory movements of the left arm and shoulder in violin playing

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionDespite a large number of available ergonomic aids and recommendations regarding instrument positioning, violin players at any proficiency level still display a worrying incidence of task-specific complaints of incompletely understood ...
Oliver Margulies   +5 more
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Nonlinear Changes in Botulinum Toxin Treatment of Task-Specific Dystonia during Long-Term Treatment

open access: yesToxins, 2021
Botulinum toxin (BoTX) is the standard treatment for task-specific dystonias (TSDs) such as musician’s dystonia (MD). Our aim was to assess the long-term changes in BoTX treatment in a highly homogeneous and, to our knowledge, largest group of MD ...
André Lee   +2 more
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Is music streaming bad for musicians? Problems of evidence and argument

open access: yesNew Media & Society, 2020
Great controversy has surrounded the growth of the music streaming services that are now central to the music industries internationally. One important set of criticisms concerns the amount of money that music creators receive for the recorded music that
D. Hesmondhalgh
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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