Tripiana-Muñoz, S. (2019). Effective strategies for instrumental practice. First steps when studying a musical work. Granada: Editorial Libargo

Abstract

After long discussions over time among the various keys to the success of great performers, this monograph approaches the subject of instrumental practice from the perspective of the importance of effective, strategic and persevering study, and thus the peremptory need to become an object of research. The author relates how, in just the last hundred years, scientific interest in the nature of instrumental practice and its relationship to the transition from initial levels to levels of excellence has been observed. However, she points out that studies on performance planning, i.e., how to form mental representations of music, design performance plans and appropriate instrumental practice strategies, did not begin until after the emergence of cognitive psychology in the second half of the 20th century, as there was little room for such questions in the behaviorist stream.