Notes from the Green Room: Coping with Stress and Anxiety in Musical Performance

Meyer, Robert G., Salmon, Paul G.

Methods for overcoming pre-performance jitters Notes from the Green Room explains the causes of musicalperformance anxiety and suggests methods for dealing with iteffectively. The authors show how proper preparation?as well astechniques such as learning experiments, relaxation training,tension management, and graded exposure to groups of varioussizes?can relieve the compulsion that often accompanies anindividual's performance. An essential resource for musicians atany level.

EAN

9780787943783

Publisher

Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.

Published

14 July 1998

Pages

240