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Speaking of your own repertoire: an investigation of music performance during practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2020

Moo Kyoung Song  and
You Jin Kim
Moo Kyoung Song*
Affiliation:
Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, South Korea
You Jin Kim
Affiliation:
Chonnam University, 77 Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore musicians’ approaches to performance during practice and identify the factors that underpinned their approaches. We hypothesised that musicians would be able to recall their focus, knowledge and thoughts of their own repertoire during music performance and that such data would reveal musicians’ cognitive behaviours during the performance. By analysing musicians’ retrospective verbal protocols, we found that musicians used four main reasoning processes – study, static analysis, intuition and performer’s analysis – in their approach to music performance. The findings show that musicians utilise multiple cognitive behaviours for music performance. The implications for instrumental music teaching are discussed.

Keywords

Music performancemusic analysisintuitionstatic analysisperformer’s analysis
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British Journal of Music Education , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , November 2020 , pp. 260 - 269
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© Cambridge University Press 2020

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