How to perform music
- Dave Soldier (2021) Music, math, and mind: the physics and neuroscience of music [i] [d] [j]
- Bertrand Denzler & Jean-Luc Guionnet [ed] (2020) The practice of musical improvisation: dialogues with contemporary musical improvisers [i] [d]
- Eva-Maria Houben (2019) Musical practice as a form of life: how making music can be meaningful and real [i] [d]
- Emily Przysinda, Tima Zeng, Kellyn Maves, Cameron Arkin, & Psyche Loui (2017) Jazz musicians reveal role of expectancy in human creativity [p] [d]
- Graeme B. Wilson & Raymond A. R. MacDonald (2017) The construction of meaning within free improvising groups: a qualitative psychological investigation [d]
- Ajay Heble & Mark Laver [ed] (2016) Improvisation and music education: beyond the classroom [i] [d]
- Roger E. Beaty (2015) The neuroscience of musical improvisation [p] [d]
- Michele Biasutti (2015) Pedagogical applications of cognitive research on musical improvisation [p] [d]
- Sandra E. Trehub, Judith Becker, & Iain Morley (2015) Cross-cultural perspectives on music and musicality [p] [d]
- Lucy Green (2014) Hear, listen, play!: how to free your student's aural, improvisation, and performance skills [i]
- John H. Gruzelier (2014) EEG-neurofeedback for optimising performance II: creativity, the performing arts and ecological validity [p] [d]
- Ana Luísa Pinho, Örjan de Manzano, Peter Fransson, Helene Eriksson, & Fredrik Ullén (2014) Connecting to create: expertise in musical improvisation is associated with increased functional connectivity between premotor and prefrontal areas [p] [d]
- Sarah E. Allen (2013) Memory stabilization and enhancement following music practice [d]
- Pedro de Alcantara (2011) Integrated practice: coordination, rhythm, & sound [i]
- Lucy Green [ed] (2011) Learning, teaching, and musical identity: voices across cultures [i]
- Ping Ho, Jennie C. I. Tsao, Lian Bloch, & Lonnie K. Zeltzer (2011) The impact of group drumming on social-emotional behavior in low-income children [d]
- Cat Hope & Lindsay Vickery (2011) Visualising the score: screening scores in realtime performance [u]
- Catherine Y. Wan & Gottfried Schlaug (2010) Music making as a tool for promoting brain plasticity across the life span [d]
- Robert A. Duke, Amy L. Simmons, & Carla Davis Cash (2009) It's not how much; it's how: characteristics of practice behavior and retention of performance skills [d]
- Hans-Christian Jabusch, Hinrich Alpers, Reinhard Kopiez, Henning Vauth, & Eckart Altenmüller (2009) The influence of practice on the development of motor skills in pianists: a longitudinal study in a selected motor task [d]
- Gerald Klickstein (2009) The musician's way: a guide to practice, performance, and wellness [i]
- Ottmar Liebert (2009) Letter to a young musician, no. 5 [practicing and performing] [u]
- Minette Mans (2009) Living in worlds of music: a view of education and values [i] [d]
- Sylvain Moreno, Carlos Marques, Andreia Santos, Manuela Santos, São Luís Castro, & Mireille Besson (2009) Musical training influences linguistic abilities in 8-year-old children: more evidence for brain plasticity [d]
- Gabriel Solis & Bruno Nettl [ed] (2009) Musical improvisation: art, education, and society [i]
- Marie J. C. Forgeard, Ellen Winner, Andrea Norton, & Gottfried Schlaug (2008) Practicing a musical instrument in childhood is associated with enhanced verbal ability and nonverbal reasoning [d]
- Lee Higgins (2008) The creative music workshop: event, facilitation, gift [d]
- Charles J. Limb & Allen R. Braun (2008) Neural substrates of spontaneous musical performance: an fMRI study of jazz improvisation [d]
- Peter Lin, Joanne Chang, Vance Zemon, & Elizabeth Midlarsky (2008) Silent illumination: a study on Chan (Zen) meditation, anxiety, and musical performance quality [d]
- Helga Noice, John Jeffrey, Tony Noice, & Roger Chaffin (2008) Memorization by a jazz musician: a case study [d]
- Barry Truax (2008) Soundscape composition as global music: electroacoustic music as soundscape [d]
- Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic & Adrian F. Furnham (2007) Personality and music: can traits explain how people use music in everyday life? [d]
- Koji Matsunobu (2007) Japanese spirituality and music practice: art as self-cultivation [i] [d]
- David E. Myers (2007) Freeing music education from schooling: toward a lifespan perspective on music learning and teaching [d]
- Stewart Gordon (2006) Mastering the art of performance: a primer for musicians [i]
- Peter T. Harrison (2006) The human nature of the singing voice: exploring a holistic basis for sound teaching and learning [i]
- Ray Jackendoff & Fred Lerdahl (2006) The capacity for music: what is it, and what's special about it? [p] [d]
- Barbro B. Johansson (2006) Music and brain plasticity [d]
- Sat Bir S. Khalsa & Stephen Cope (2006) Effects of a yoga lifestyle intervention on performance-related characteristics of musicians: a preliminary study [p]
- Guy Madison (2006) Experiencing groove induced by music: consistency and phenomenology [d]
- Gary E. McPherson [ed] (2006/2016) The child as musician: a handbook of musical development [i] [d]
- Anne Peckham (2006) Vocal workouts for the contemporary singer [i]
- Thomas H. Rammsayer & Eckart Altenmüller (2006) Temporal information processing in musicians and nonmusicians [d]
- Ellen Winner (2006) Development in the arts: drawing and music [i] [d]
- Angela Myles Beeching (2005/2010) Beyond talent: creating a successful career in music [i]
- Meribeth Bunch Dayme (2005) The performer's voice: realizing your vocal potential [i]
- Peter E. Keller (2005) Musical meter in attention to multipart rhythm [d]
- Josh McDermott & Marc D. Hauser (2005) The origins of music: innateness, uniqueness, and evolution [d]
- Ingo G. Meister, Timo Krings, Henrik Foltys, Babak Boroojerdi, Mareike Müller, Rudolf Töpper, & Armin Thron (2005) Effects of long-term practice and task complexity in musicians and nonmusicians performing simple and complex motor tasks: implications for cortical motor organization [d]
- Pauline Oliveros (2005) Deep listening: a composer's sound practice [i]
- Jim Aikin (2004) A player's guide to chords & harmony: music theory for real-world musicians [i]
- Lee Roy Bartel & Linda Cameron (2004) From dilemmas to experience: shaping the conditions of learning [i]
- Renaud Brochard, André Dufour, & Olivier Després (2004) Effect of musical expertise on visuospatial abilities: evidence from reaction times and mental imagery [d]
- Michael Edward Edgerton (2004) The 21st-century voice: contemporary and traditional extra-normal voice [i]
- Daniel Fischlin & Ajay Heble [ed] (2004) The other side of nowhere: jazz, improvisation, and communities in dialogue [i]
- Kalani (2004) Together in rhythm: a facilitator's guide to drum circle music [i]
- Ingo G. Meister, Timo Krings, Henrik Foltys, Babak Boroojerdi, Mareike Müller, Rudolf Töpper, & Armin Thron (2004) Playing piano in the mind—an fMRI study on music imagery and performance in pianists [d]
- E. Glenn Schellenberg (2004) Music lessons enhance IQ [d]
- Aaron Williamon [ed] (2004) Musical excellence: strategies and techniques to enhance performance [i] [d]
- Susanne Brandler & Thomas H. Rammsayer (2003) Differences in mental abilities between musicians and non-musicians [d]
- Roger Chaffin, Gabriella Imreh, Anthony F. Lemieux, & Colleen Chen (2003) 'Seeing the big picture': piano practice as expert problem solving [d]
- Lorna S. Jakobson, Lola L. Cuddy, & Andrea R. Kilgour (2003) Time tagging: a key to musicians' superior memory [d]
- Ed Sarath (2003) Meditation in higher education: the next wave? [d]
- R. Keith Sawyer (2003) Group creativity: music, theater, collaboration [i] [d]
- Marienne Uszler (2003) Play it again, Sam—what, why, and when to repeat [i]
- William Westney (2003) The perfect wrong note: learning to trust your musical self [i]
- Roger Chaffin, Gabriela Imreh, & Mary Crawford (2002) Practicing perfection: memory and piano performance [i] [d]
- Lori Custodero (2002) Seeking challenge, finding skill: flow experience and music education [d]
- Margret Elson (2002) Passionate practice: the musician's guide to learning, memorizing, and performing [i]
- Adrian F. Furnham & Lisa Strbac (2002) Music is as distracting as noise: the differential distraction of background music and noise on the cognitive test performance of introverts and extraverts [d]
- Susan Hallam (2002) Musical motivation: towards a model synthesising the research [d]
- Gabriela Husain, William Forde Thompson, & E. Glenn Schellenberg (2002) Effects of musical tempo and mode on arousal, mood, and spatial abilities [d]
- Philip Johnston (2002) The practice revolution: getting great results from the six days between music lessons [i]
- Stefan Koelsch, Erich Schroger, & Thomas C. Gunter (2002) Music matters: preattentive musicality of the human brain [d]
- Raymond A. R. MacDonald, David J. Hargreaves, & Dorothy Miell [ed] (2002) Musical identities [i]
- Richard Parncutt & Gary E. McPherson [ed] (2002) The science & psychology of music performance: creative strategies for teaching and learning [i] [d]
- David Rothenberg (2002) Sudden music: improvisation, sound, nature [i]
- Nina Wise (2002) To sing like a river—opening the voice [i]
- Liz Kotz (2001) Post-Cagean aesthetics and the 'event' score [j]
- Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers (2001) Beginning guitarist's handbook [i]
- David Rothenberg & Marta Ulvaeus [ed] (2001) The book of music and nature: an anthology of sounds, words, thoughts [i]
- David Sonnenschein (2001) Sound design: the expressive power of music, voice, and sound effects in cinema [i]
- Anne Peckham (2000) The contemporary singer: elements of vocal technique [i]
- Steve Prosser (2000) Essential ear training for the contemporary musician [i]
- Bob Snyder (2000) Music and memory: an introduction [i]
- Leon Thurman & Graham Welch [ed] (2000) Bodymind & voice: foundations of voice education [i]
- Dorita S. Berger (1999) Toward the Zen of performance: music improvisation therapy for the development of self-confidence in the performer [i]
- Shirlee Emmons & Alma Thomas (1998) Power performance for singers: transcending the barriers [i]
- Stanley Godlovitch (1998) Musical performance: a philosophical study [i]
- Pedro de Alcantara (1997) Indirect procedures: a musician's guide to the Alexander technique [i]
- Ravi Shankar & George Harrison (1997/1999) Raga mala: the autobiography of Ravi Shankar [i]
- Oren L. Brown (1996) Discover your voice: how to develop healthy voice habits [i]
- John Cage & Joan Retallack (1996) Musicage: Cage muses on words, art, music [i]
- Guitar Player Magazine [ed] (1996/2001) How to play guitar: the basics & beyond: chords, scales, tunes & tips [i]
- Anthony Kemp (1996) The musical temperament: psychology and personality of musicians [i]
- Ralf T. Krampe & K. Anders Ericsson (1996) Maintaining excellence: deliberate practice and elite performance in young and older pianists [p] [d]
- Kenny Werner (1996) Effortless mastery: liberating the master musician within [i]
- Michael Jones (1995) Creating an imaginative life [i]
- Klaus R. Scherer (1995) Expression of emotion in voice and music [d]
- W. A. Mathieu (1994) The musical life: reflections on what it is and how to live it [i]
- John Cage & Richard Kostelanetz (1993) John Cage, writer: previously uncollected pieces [i]
- R. Murray Schafer (1992) A sound education: 100 exercises in listening and sound-making [i]
- W. A. Mathieu (1991) The listening book: discovering your own music [i]
- Julie Jafee Nagel (1988) Identity and career choice in music [d]
- John Cage & Richard Kostelanetz (1987/2003) Conversing with Cage [i]
- Barry Green & W. Timothy Gallwey (1986) The inner game of music [i]
- Richard Miller (1986) The structure of singing: system and art in vocal technique [i]
- Frank R. Wilson (1986) Tone deaf and all thumbs?: an invitation to music-making for late bloomers and non-prodigies [i]
- Marie-Laure Bachmann (1984/1991) Dalcroze today: an education through and into music [i]
- Meribeth Bunch Dayme (1982/2009) Dynamics of the singing voice [i] [d]
- John Caldwell Holt (1978/1991) Never too late: my musical life story [i]
- Kristin Linklater (1976/2006) Freeing the natural voice: imagery and art in the practice of voice and language [i]
- John Cage (1969) Notations [o]
- R. Murray Schafer (1969) The new soundscape: a handbook for the modern music teacher [o]
- John Cage (1967) A year from Monday: new lectures and writings [i]
- John Cage (1961) Silence: lectures and writings [i]
- Frances Densmore (1910/1972) Chippewa music [i] [u]