Free Improvisation and Performance Anxiety among Piano Students

Autor/in	Allen, Robert
Titel	Free Improvisation and Performance Anxiety among Piano Students
Quelle	In: Psychology of Music, 41 (2013) 1, S.75-88 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7356
DOI	10.1177/0305735611415750
Schlagwörter	Anxiety; Music; Creative Activities; Video Technology; Instruction; Comparative Analysis; Questionnaires; Elementary School Students; Middle School Students; High School Students; Interviews; Musical Instruments; Control Groups; Intervention; Musicians; Statistical Inference; Experimental Groups; Pretests Posttests; Correlation; State Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Angst; Musik; Teaching process; Unterrichtsprozess; Fragebogen; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Musikinstrument; Musiker; Inferential statistics; Schließende Statistik; Korrelation
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to compare the levels of anxiety that students experienced according to whether their public performance consisted of a free improvisation or a repertory piece. The researcher had two objectives: (1) examine the relationship of students' levels of anxiety to free improvisation and repertory pieces during a performance; and (2) examine the effectiveness of free improvisation as a treatment for the reduction of performance anxiety. The following instruments were used for data collection: (1) Spielberger's (1973) State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children; (2) Musical Anxiety Report Scale; (3) subject interviews; (4) parent questionnaire; and (5) performance video. Thirty-six elementary, middle and high school students were selected from a list of potential subjects. Participants were selected based on age (7-18 years) and years of training (1-8), as well as to comprise a gender balance. Sample criteria required that all subjects who participated in the study: (1) played the piano; (2) claimed to have experienced music performance anxiety; and (3) had not received any previous psychological or pharmacological treatment for their music performance anxiety. Results from this study validated free improvisation as a treatment for significantly reducing anxiety during the public performance of a musical work. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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