Art in Motion II

Adina Mornell is a classical pianist, recording artist, and music educator whose background includes music performance, literature, musicology, and psychology. As Professor and Chair of Instrumental and Vocal Pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich, she investigates expertise in the laboratory and on stage.

Contents: Siegfried Mauser: Foreword - Adina Mornell: Setting Art into Motion and Motivating Musicians' Movement - Richard A. Schmidt/Timothy D. Lee: Principles of Practice for the Development of Skilled Actions: Implications for Training and Instruction in Music - Klaus Schneider: In Search of a Movement Science for Musicians - Jürgen Beckmann/Peter Gröpel/Felix Ehrlenspiel: Practicing with Both Brain Hemispheres - Josef Ilmberger: Kinds of Knowledges in Brains - Michal Zagrodzki: The Role of Cognitive Style in the Activity of Musician Performers - Eckart Altenmüller: Acquisition and Loss of Skilled Movements in Musicians as a Paradigm for Adaptive and Maladaptive Brain Plasticity - Peter E. Keller: What Movement Force Reveals about Cognitive Processes in Music Performance - Bettina Bläsing: Mind, Movement and Motor Skills: Studies of Expertise in Dance - Frank Heuser: The Path to Efficiency in Music Making: Contrasting Students with Mentors - Tobias Großhauser/Ulf Großekathöfer/Thomas Hermann: Adaptive and Reactive Sensor Technology for Musical Instruments: Teaching, Exercising and Pedagogy - Gary McPherson: Using Self-Regulation to Unlock Musical Success - Rachel Rudich/Marianne de Laet: Operant Conditioning as Motivational Strategy. On Training Musicians, Athletes, and Scientists - and How We Taught Our Dogs to Sit.