The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance, Volume 2

The two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Performance provides a resource that musicians, scholars and educators will use as the most important and authoritative overview of work within the areas of music psychology and performance science. The 80 experts from 13 countries who prepared the 53 chapters in this handbook are leaders in the fields of music psychology, performance science, musicology, psychology, education and music education. Chapters in the Handbook provide a broad coverage of the area with considerable expansion of the topics that are normally covered in a resource of this type. Designed around eight distinct sections - Development and Learning, Proficiencies, Performance Practices, Psychology, Enhancements, Health & Wellbeing, Science, and Innovations - the range and scope of The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance is much wider than other publications through the inclusion of chapters from related disciplines such as performance science (e.g., optimizing performance, mental techniques, talent development in non-music areas), and education (e.g., human development, motivation, learning and teaching styles) as well as the attention given to emerging critical issues in the field (e.g., wellbeing, technology, gender, diversity, inclusion, identity, resilience and buoyancy, diseases, and physical and mental disabilities). Within each chapter, authors have selected what they consider to be the most important scientific and artistic material relevant to their topic. They begin their chapters by surveying theoretical views on each topic and then, in the final part of the chapter, highlight practical implications of the literature that performers will be able to apply within their daily musical lives.

Gary E. McPherson is the Ormond Professor of Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests are broad and his approach interdisciplinary. His most important research examines the acquisition and development of musical competence, and motivation to engage and participate in music from novice to expert levels. With a particular interest in the acquisition of visual, aural and creative performance skills, he has attempted to understand more precisely how music students become sufficiently motivated and self-regulated to achieve at the highest level. Gary has published over 250 articles and book chapters and co-authored, co-edited or edited 14 books for OUP, including The Child as Musician, Musical Prodigies: Interpretations from Psychology, Education, Musicology and Ethnomusicology, and The Oxford Handbook of Music Education.

Section 5: Enhancements - Section Editor Reinhard Kopiez 1. The Feldenkrais method: Stephen Paparo 2. The Alexander technique: Elizabeth Valentine, Judith Kleinman & Peter Buckoke 3. Peak performance: Johannes Hatfield, Glyn Roberts, & Pierre-Nicolas Lemyre 4. Mindfulness: Frank Diaz 5. Stage behaviour, impression management and charisma: Friedrich Platz & Reinhard Kopiez 6. Enhancing music performance appraisal: Gary E. McPherson & Emery Schubert 7. Creating sustainable performance careers: Dawn Bennett & Karen Burland Section 6: Health & Wellbeing - Section Editor Eckart Altenmüller 8. Brain mechanisms of musical learning and performing: Eckart Altenmüller 9. Musical activities in people with disabilities: Maria Schuppert & Eckart Altenmüller 10. Performance anxiety: Margaret Osborne & Jennifer Kirsner 11. Diseases and health risks in instrumentalists: Claudia Spahn 12. Hearing and voice: Bernard Richter 13. Promoting health related lifestyle: Liliana S. Araújo & Claudia Spahn Section 7: Science - Section Editor Jim Woodhouse 14. Winds: Joe Wolfe 15. String instruments - plucked: Jim Woodhouse 16. String instruments - bowed: Jim Woodhouse 17. Piano: Richard Parncutt & Werner Goebl 18. Solo voice: Graham Welch 19. Vocal ensembles: Sten Ternström & Harald Jers 20. Instrumental ensembles: Laura Bishop & Peter Keller 21. Electronic instruments: Chris Chafe 22. Motion capture of music performances: Marcelo M. Wanderley; Section 8: Innovations - Section Editor Aaron Williamon Technological Innovations 23. Synchronous online learning, teaching, and performance: Tania Lisboa, Pétur Jónasson & Carol Johnson 24. Technology enhanced learning of performance: Rafael Ramirez & George Waddell Social and Wellbeing Innovations 25. Interdisciplinary experiential learning: Terry Clark & Aaron Williamon 26. Re-thinking musicians' wellbeing: Sara Ascenso, Antonella Delle Fav), Aaron Williamon & Rosie Perkins Index