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

by Paul G. Salmon and Robert G. Meyer

Book Overview

This work explains the causes of musical performance anxiety and suggests ways of dealing with it effectively. The authors draw on cognitive and behavioural psychology to show how proper preparation, learning experiments, tension management and relaxation training can relieve anxiety which often accompanies an individual's musical performance.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0669250104
• ISBN13: 9780669250107
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"