International Symposium on Performance Science (ISPS)

Proceedings of ISPS 2009

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Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science 2009, edited by Aaron Williamon, Sharman Pretty, and Ralph Buck, published by the European Association of Conservatoires (AEC), Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789490306014.

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Frontmatter

Preface, acknowledgments, contents, scientific committee

p. i-ix

15 December 2009

Keynote paper

Performance, science, and society

p. 5

Robert Winston

16 December 2009

Keynote paper

Discovering deliberate practice activities that overcome plateaus and limits on improvement of performance

p. 11-21

K. Anders Ericsson

Symposium

Physical and psychological vulnerabilities in music and dance students

Suffering for one's art: Performance related musculoskeletal disorders in tertiary performing arts students in music and dance

p. 25-30

Dianna T. Kenny, Justine Cormack, Rosemary Martin

Practicing perfection: The physical costs of practice in tertiary music and dance students

p. 31-36

Dianna T. Kenny, Rosemary Martin, Justine Cormack

The factor structure of the revised Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory

p. 37-41

Dianna T. Kenny

Thematic session

The vocabulary of performance

Linguistic limitations of describing sound: Is talking about music like dancing about architecture?

p. 45-50

Helen F. Mitchell, Raymond A. R. MacDonald

The influence of listeners’ singing experience and the number of singers on the understanding of sung text

p. 51-56

Philip Fine, Jane Ginsborg, Chris Barlow

The PC-survey: How does use of performance cues vary across musicians, instruments, musical styles, and performances?

p. 57-62

Roger Chaffin, Alexander Demos, Mary Crawford

Thematic session

Performance analysis

Finger motion in piano performance: Touch and tempo

p. 65-70

Werner Goebl, Caroline Palmer

Quantitative multidimensional approach of technical pianistic level

p. 71-76

Paul Molin

Evaluation of a scale performance on the piano using spline and regression models

p. 77-82

Shinya Morita, Norio Emura, Masanobu Miura, Seiko Akinaga, Masuzo Yanagida

Symposium

Performance science: Implications for educational and professional practice

Profiling musicians’ health, wellbeing, and performance

p. 85-90

Aaron Williamon, David Wasley, Rosie Burt-Perkins, Jane Ginsborg, Wulf Hildebrandt

Dance science: Scientific investigations into the effect of dance specific fitness training and its impact upon pedagogic practices and dance performance

p. 91-96

Emma Redding, Sarah Irvine, Edel Quin, Sonia Rafferty

Developing evidence-based interventions to enhance performance

p. 97-102

Terry Clark, Aaron Williamon

How can neuroscience help performers?

p. 103-104

Eckart Altenmüller, Hans-Christian Jabusch

Thematic session

Expression and interpretation I

Expressive timing: Martha Argerich plays Chopin’s Prelude op. 28/4 in E minor

p. 107-112

Olivier Senn, Lorenz Kilchenmann, Marc-Antoine Camp

Controlling the pacing of retards and accelerandos in piano performance: A roller coaster solution?

p. 113-118

Cristine MacKie

Maintaining skill across the life span: Magaloff’s entire Chopin at age 77

p. 119-124

Sebastian Flossmann, Werner Goebl, Gerhard Widmer

Thematic session

Expertise development

Strategies for achieving performing excellence of twentieth and twenty-first century art song

p. 127-132

Cathy Aggett

Developing the ability to perform: Investigating the field of higher education and expertise development for learning and performing the double bass

p. 133-138

Florian Pertzborn, Daniela Coimbra, Susan Hallam, Ana Cristina Braga

Pathways of excellence in science and dance: Lessons learned from a Portuguese case study

p. 139-144

Liliana S. Araújo, José Fernando A. Cruz, Leandro S. Almeida

Thematic session

Expression and interpretation II

Diversity and homogeneity in contemporary violin recordings of solo Bach

p. 147-152

Dorottya Fabian

Breathing in classical singing: Linking science and teaching

p. 153-158

Sally Collyer

Synchronization of motion and timing in clarinet performance

p. 159-164

Caroline Palmer, Erik Koopmans, Christine Carter, Janeen D. Loehr, Marcelo Wanderley

Thematic session

Memory and performance

Memory for tactus and musical tempo: The effects of expertise and speed on keeping time

p. 167-172

Philip Fine, Stephen Bull

Moving backwards and forwards in time: Recalling dance from long-term memory

p. 173-178

Catherine Stevens, Jane Ginsborg, Garry Lester

Memory span in dance: Influence of age and experience

p. 179-184

Sofia Carvalheiro, Luís Xarez

Graduate award paper

Fast feedforward error-detection mechanisms in highly skilled music performance

p. 187-197

María Herrojo Ruiz, Hans-Christian Jabusch, Eckart Altenmüller

17 December 2009

Keynote paper

A balanced approach to excellence: Life-skill intervention and elite performance

p. 203-213

Deidre Anderson

Poster session

Memory consolidation in musicians: The effects of sleep, interference, and recall on musicians’ performance of a keyboard melody

p. 217

Sarah E. Allen

Health and wellbeing education in British conservatoires

p. 219-223

Louise Atkins

Evidence of noise-induced hearing loss among orchestral musicians

p. 225-230

Bradford C. Backus, Aaron Williamon

Strategies for the pianist to enhance the artistic quality of piano recording

p. 231-236

Marija Bajalica, David Lockett

Analyzing and representing Transylvanian village music by using motion capture

p. 237-242

Filippo Bonini Baraldi, Emmanuel Bigand, Thierry Pozzo

Studying a score silently: What benefits can it bring to performance?

p. 243-248

Anabela Bravo, Philip Fine

The learning cultures of performance: Applying a cultural theory of learning to conservatoire research

p. 249-254

Rosie Burt-Perkins

Musical narrative deconstruction: Ritual and transgression

p. 255-260

Sara Carvalho, Helena Marinho

The piano repertoire preparation: A research method as a potential tool for reflective instrumental practice

p. 261-266

Regina A. T. dos Santos, Liane Hentschke

The role of the soft palate in woodwind and brass playing

p. 267-272

Alison Evans, Bronwen Ackermann, Tim Driscoll

The Vincenzo Vitale piano school: Famous school but little known

p. 273-278

Viviana Nicoleta Ferrari

Expertise in cryptic crossword performance: An exploratory survey

p. 279-284

Kathryn Friedlander, Philip Fine

Relationship between playing strategy and surface electromyograms in playing drums

p. 285-290

Takuya Fujisawa, Naoki Iwami, Masafumi Kinou, Masanobu Miura

Between hedonism and atomism: Discrepancies in the performers’ musical perception

p. 291

Veronica Gaspar

Effect of music in a healing room for recovery from mental fatigue: A psychological experiment of the relation between relaxing music and listening space design

p. 293

Yasuhiro Goto

Performing proportion: Crux awareness in Scarlatti interpretation

p. 295-300

Nancy Lee Harper, Tomás Henriques, Rosalind Halton

Piano playing skills in a patient with frontotemporal dementia: A longitudinal case study

p. 301-306

Sharpley Hsieh, Eneida Mioshi, Felicity Baker, Olivier Piguet, John R. Hodges

Chin force in violin playing

p. 307

Hiroshi Kinoshita, Satoshi Obata

The nature of professional accompanists and their roles: Performing with musical excellence and enjoying communicative interaction

p. 309-314

Yuriko Kubota

How memory fades: Very-long-term recall of Bach

p. 315-320

Tânia Lisboa, Roger Chaffin, Topher Logan

What do children think of music teachers? Their conceptions about cello teaching and learning

p. 321-326

Guadalupe López, J. Ignacio Pozo, Alfredo Bautista

The use of musical scores in order to perform: An exploratory study with flute players

p. 327-332

Cristina Marín Oller, Puy Pérez Echeverría, Susan Hallam

Pirouetting with pain: Attitudes surrounding female ballet dancers dancing with pain

p. 333-338

Rosemary Martin

Cardio-respiratory responses to expressiveness in piano performance

p. 339-340

Hidehiro Nakahara, Shinichi Furuya, Satoshi Obata, Peter R. Francis, Hiroshi Kinoshita

The Listening Gallery: Integrating music with exhibitions and gallery displays

p. 341-346

Giulia Nuti, Ashley Solomon, Aaron Williamon

Difficulty of violin vibrato in novice players:
Fingerboard reaction force analysis

p. 347

Satoshi Obata, Hidehiro Nakahara, Takeshi Hirano, Hiroshi Kinoshita

Musical learning and cognitive performance

p. 349-354

Carlos Santos-Luiz, Daniela Coimbra, Carlos Fernandes da Silva

A longitudinal observation of one-to-one singing lessons: The effects of personality and adult attachment

p. 355-358

Sofia Serra-Dawa

Emotional lingering: Facial expressions of musical closure

p. 359-364

William Forde Thompson, Rachel Bennetts, Bojan Neskovic, Caroline Palmer

Pianists with carpal tunnel syndrome: Conservative versus surgical treatment

p. 365-370

Hara Trouli, Nikos Reissis

Musical training facilitates brain plasticity: Short-term training effects on sensorimotor integration

p. 371-372

C. Carolyn Wu, Vanessa K. Lim, Jeffrey P. Hamm, Ian J. Kirk

Symposium

Musician's dystonia: New aspects in pathophysiology and treatment

Is musician’s dystonia an inherited condition?

p. 375-380

Alexander Schmidt, Hans-Christian Jabusch, Eckart Altenmüller, Johann Hagenah, Rachel Saunders-Pullman, Susan B. Bressman, Alexander Münchau, Christine Klein

New aspects in action planning and execution in musicians with dystonia

p. 381-386

María Herrojo Ruiz, Hans-Christian Jabusch, Eckart Altenmüller

Functional and morphological changes of brain structures in patients suffering from musician’s dystonia

p. 387-388

Eckart Altenmüller, Oliver Granert, Martin Peller, Hans-Christian Jabusch, Hartwig Siebner

Setting the stage for prevention and treatment: New therapeutic approaches in musician’s dystonia

p. 389-394

Hans-Christian Jabusch, Franziska Buttkus, Volker Baur, Maricruz Gomez-Pellin, Laurent Boullet, Eckart Altenmüller

The effects of pianistic retraining via video conferencing as a means of assisting recovery from focal dystonia: A case study

p. 395-400

Rae de Lisle, Dale Speedy, John Thompson

Thematic session

Understanding performance

Doing without thinking? Aspects of musical decision-making

p. 403-408

Daniel Bangert

Applications of formal analysis: Musical comprehension and memory consolidation in performance

p. 409-414

Elena Esteban Muñoz

That blissful feeling: Phenomenological conceptions of music performance from one performer’s perspective

p. 415-420

Andrew Geeves, Doris McIlwain

Thematic session

The perception of technique

Left-hand expression in cello playing: Exploring approaches to shifting

p. 423-428

Tânia Lisboa, Fernando Gualda

Fingering force in violin vibrato

p. 429

Satoshi Obata, Hidehiro Nakahara, Takeshi Hirano, Hiroshi Kinoshita

Fluctuation strength of tremolo played on the mandolin: How is tremolo evaluated as good?

p. 431-436

Nozomiko Yasui, Masafumi Kinou, Masanobu Miura

Thematic session

Emotion in performance

The effects of musical syntax on perception of music performance

p. 439-444

Katty Kochman, Marc Leman, Jana DeClerk

Emotional arousal and the automatic detection of musical phrase boundaries

p. 445-450

Steven R. Livingstone, Emery Schubert, Janeen D. Loehr, Caroline Palmer

Communicating emotion in piano performance

p. 451-456

Cristina C. Gerling, Regina A. T. dos Santos, Catarina Domenici

Workshop

Hearing and the noise of performance: Solutions for sound monitoring

p. 459

Aaron Williamon, Bradford C. Backus, Stephen Dance, Georgia Zepidou

Workshop

Taking microtonal composition and performance from the periphery into the mainstream

p. 461-462

Graham Hair, Nicholas J. Bailey, Lisa Swayne

Workshop

The art and science of historical performance

p. 463

Colin Lawson, James Tibbles

18 December 2009

Thematic session

Student musicians' motivation, learning, and performance

Multiple motives: Profiles of young Australians’ reasons for musical engagement

p. 469-474

James M. Renwick, Gary E. McPherson

Playing together in ways that cater for and fulfill student musicians’ psychological needs

p. 475-480

Gary E. McPherson

Focus, effort, and enjoyment in chamber music: Rehearsal strategies of successful and "failed" student ensembles

p. 481-486

Jane Ginsborg

What predicts performance excellence in tertiary level music students?

p. 487-492

Dianna T. Kenny, James Fortune, Bronwen Ackermann

Thematic session

Performers' health

Influence of musculoskeletal dysfunction and pain on performance excellence

p. 495-500

Anke Steinmetz

Do pianists play with their teeth?

p. 501-506

Sofia Lourenço, Miguel Pais Clemente, Daniela Coimbra, Álvaro Barbosa, João Carlos Pinho

ISSTIP performing arts clinics at the London College of Music 1990-2005: The first ideas, the realization, and the lessons for the future

p. 507-512

Andy Evans, Hara Trouli

Thematic session

Performance and life factors

Diversity of dancer experience in a dance program

p. 515-520

Shona Erskine, Mary Ainley

A circle of life: The Caroline Plummer Fellowship in Community Dance project

p. 521

Barbara Snook

Choosing the unstable: Dancing through the mid-career

p. 523-528

Jo Pollitt, Dawn Bennett

Thematic session

Physicality of performance

Physical movement and imagery in professional and undergraduate student solo marimba practice

p. 531-536

Mary Broughton, Catherine Stevens

Monitoring work and rest during performance and life-style: A study case with a principal ballet dancer

p. 537-542

Luís Xarez, Fernando Pereira, Gonçalo Mendonça

Will supplemental fitness training have an affect on the aesthetic components of contemporary and classical ballet dance performance?

p. 543-544

Matthew Wyon, Emily A. Twitchett, Manuela Angioi, George Metsios, Yiannis Koutedakis

Thematic session

Defining performance

Is composition a mode of performing? Questioning musical meaning

p. 547-552

Jorge Salgado Correia

Seeking excellence in danced postgraduate degrees

p. 553-558

Maggi Phillips

Intention revisited: From composition to performance

p. 559-564

Helena Marinho, Sara Carvalho

Thematic session

Psychology of performance

When repetition isn’t the best practice strategy: Examining differing levels of contextual interference during practice

p. 567-572

Laura A. Stambaugh

Imaging the music: A context-specific method for assessing imagery ability

p. 573-578

Terry Clark, Aaron Williamon

Learning to play double bass by stimulating mental imagery

p. 579-580

Emmanuel Bigand, Thierry Pozzo, Christophe Beraut

Thematic session

Perceiving performance

Computer assisted analysis and display of musical and performance data

p. 583-584

Stuart Pullinger, Nicholas J. Bailey, Jennifer MacRitchie, Margaret McAllister

Gestural communication: Linking multimodal analysis of performance to perception of musical structure

p. 585-590

Jennifer MacRitchie, Bryony Buck, Nicholas J. Bailey

Music performance venues: Keeping them in tune with modern requirements

p. 591-596

George Dodd

Keynote paper

The dominant artistic discourse as a health determinant

p. 599-610

Sylvie Fortin

Endmatter

Author index

p. 611-613