A PRISMA review of research on music practice

ER How, L Tan, P Miksza - Musicae Scientiae, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We employed the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-
Analyses) method to systematically review research on music practice from 1928 until June …

Focus of attention in musical learning and music performance: a systematic review and discussion of focus instructions and outcome measures

J Hohagen, A Immerz - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The topic of attentional focus (focus of attention, FOA) in musical learning and performance
has recently received increasing interest, as the growing number of empirical studies …

How do “earworms” start? Classifying the everyday circumstances of Involuntary Musical Imagery

VJ Williamson, SR Jilka, J Fry, S Finkel… - Psychology of …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Involuntary Musical Imagery (INMI) or “earworms” describes the experience whereby a tune
comes into the mind and repeats without conscious control. The present article uses an …

When they listen and when they watch: Pianists' use of nonverbal audio and visual cues during duet performance

L Bishop, W Goebl - Musicae Scientiae, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Nonverbal auditory and visual communication helps ensemble musicians predict each
other's intentions and coordinate their actions. When structural characteristics of the music …

Effects of attentional focus on motor performance and physiology in a slow-motion violin bow-control task: Evidence for the constrained action hypothesis in bowed …

E Allingham, C Wöllner - Journal of research in music …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The constrained action hypothesis states that focusing attention on action outcomes rather
than body movement improves motor performance. Dexterity of motor control is key to …

Mental effort when playing, listening, and imagining music in one pianist's eyes and brain

T Endestad, RI Godøy, MH Sneve, T Hagen… - Frontiers in Human …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
We investigated “musical effort” with an internationally renowned, classical, pianist while
playing, listening, and imagining music. We used pupillometry as an objective measure of …

The nature of feedback in higher education studio-based piano learning and teaching with the use of digital technology1

L Hamond, E Himonides… - Journal of Music …, 2020 - intellectdiscover.com
The aim of the current research was to investigate the nature of feedback when a digital
technology system was introduced in the higher education (HE) piano studio alongside …

Musical imagery and the planning of dynamics and articulation during performance

L Bishop, F Bailes, RT Dean - Music Perception: An …, 2012 - online.ucpress.edu
Musicians anticipate the effects of their actions during performance. Online musical imagery,
or the consciously accessible anticipation of desired effects, may enable expressive …

Musical imagery in the creative process

F Bailes, L Bishop - The act of musical composition, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter examines the musical imagery in its relationship to musical imagination. It
provides an overview of the creative functions of musical imagery, with a particular focus on …

Musical expertise and the ability to imagine loudness

L Bishop, F Bailes, RT Dean - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Most perceived parameters of sound (eg pitch, duration, timbre) can also be imagined in the
absence of sound. These parameters are imagined more veridically by expert musicians …