Unraveling mysteries of personal performance style; biomechanics of left-hand position changes (shifting) in violin performance.

ABSTRACT: Instrumental music performance ranks among the most complex of learned human behaviors, requiring development of highly nuanced powers of sensory and neural discrimination, intricate motor skills, and adaptive abilities in a temporal activity. Teaching, learning and performing on the violin generally occur within musico-cultural parameters most often transmitted through aural traditions that include both verbal instruction and performance modeling. In most parts of the world, violin is taught in a manner virtually indistinguishable from that used 200 years ago. The current study uses methods from movement science to examine the "how" and "what" of left-hand position changes (shifting), a movement skill essential during violin performance. In doing so, it begins a discussion of artistic ind

SUBMITTER: Visentin P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4636401 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature