The Positive Pianist
How Flow Can Bring Passion to Practice and Performance
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 March 2015
- ISBN 9780199316595
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages150 pages
- Size 157x239x12 mm
- Weight 403 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In The Positive Pianist: How Flow Can Bring Passion to Practice and Performance, author Thomas J. Parente applies the concept of flow to piano playing in order to demonstrate how student musicians can experience enjoyment and confidence from succeeding at something that challenges them to an engaging level.
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In The Positive Pianist: How Flow Can Bring Passion to Practice and Performance, author Thomas J. Parente applies the concept of flow to the practice of piano playing, demonstrating how student musicians can experience enjoyment and confidence from succeeding at something that challenges them to an engaging level. By using Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's theory of flow to musical performance, Parente shows that linking productivity and enjoyment in piano playing has a positive impact on students, motivating them to practice more in order to experience flow again; this creates optimal learning conditions for piano practicing. As the chapters progress, Parente shows students how to evaluate their own progress and offers teachers the tools to impart on their students an optimal practice method: one informed by flow. Parente argues for an objective, goal-oriented backdrop that will lead piano students to achieve greater confidence, accuracy, and musicality. The Positive Pianist draws on the author's forty years of teaching experience and research to show piano students and their teachers how to develop a productive, focused mental state when practicing the piano.
This is a well-written, thoughtful treatise on a vital part of our profession, and the language Parente employs befits the intelligence and integrity of the author and his targeted audience. I recommend it for all piano majors.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Chapter 1. Loving What You Do, Doing What You Love
Chapter 2. Flow Experience
Chapter 3. Building Skills
Chapter 4. Combining Flow and Skills
Chapter 5. Learning a Simple Piece
Chapter 6. Learning a More Complex Piece
Chapter 7. Developing the Confidence to Perform
Chapter 8. Teaching to Flow
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