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- Title
Uloga formalne strukture i izvedbene zahtjevnosti glazbenoga djela kod upamćivanja notnoga teksta: studija slučaja.
- Authors
Žauhar, Valnea; bajšanski, Igor
- Abstract
The field of musical arts represents a rich domain for investigating performing skills. Playing a musical instrument is a motor skill which, in order to be fully effective, necessarily involves the activation of cognitive processes such as perception, attention and memory. In the Western classical tradition, concert pianists memorize music scores for their performances, which require deliberate practicing and encoding music in long-term memory. While practicing, the musicians make decisions on structuring practice sessions and therefore the recordings of their practice sessions can provide an indirect view into cognitive processes which are responsible for memorizing a piece of music. The goal of the study was to examine an expert pianist practicing the Prelude and Fugue in E Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach (Well-tempered clavier I, BWV 855) to see whether the pianist based her practice on the formal structure of the given movements which are supposed to be crucial for memory encoding. The pianist, a third year undergraduate student at the Music Academy Zagreb (Rijeka Department), had recorded her practice from the first practice session until the public performance. The recorded practice sessions were transcribed and analyzed with regards to three learning periods for Prelude and Fugue. The results showed that the pianist used structural bars as starting places more often in all three learning periods for both movements. Moreover, the results showed that the correlation between starts and structural bars through the learning periods increased as the practice progressed. Furthermore, the results showed that the pianist repeated the difficult bars more often in the first learning periods, and that the correlation between repetitions and difficult bars decreased with the learning periods. Starting with structural bars suggests that the pianist memorized a piece of music relying on its hierarchical organization regardless of the musical form of each movement, the Prelude and the Fugue.
- Subjects
MUSIC scores; MUSIC memorizing; ART &; music; COGNITIVE analysis; MUSICAL instruments; DECISION making; PIANISTS; CASE studies
- Publication
Psychological Topics / Psihologijske Teme, 2012, Vol 21, Issue 2, p225
- ISSN
1332-0742
- Publication type
Article