Music, Motor Control and the Brain

by Mario Wiesendanger, Jürg Kesselring, Eckart Altenm"uller

The motor actions that can be witnessed as a virtuoso musician performs can be so fast, so accomplished, so precise, as to seem somehow superhuman. The musician has to produce the movements, monitor those they have already made and the subsequent result, co-ordinate their hands, fingers, eyes,
and perhaps throat and diaphragm. These achievements are of course the product of hundreds, even thousands of hours of practice - playing scales, studies,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199298726
• ISBN13: 9780199298723
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.5"