Nervios
15 artículos disponibles en línea
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Nerves, Pills and Doping
Behind a debate once confined to musicians lies a wider shift in how performance anxiety, medication and professional responsibility began to be separated instead of confused.
Por Christian Baechler
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The subconscious, a useful friend
From yogic practices to auto-hypnosis, mental conditioning and visualisation are linked to performance, self-control, and the body's hidden responses.
Por Michel Ricquier
Brass players athletes
Brass players are athletes. Bengt Belfrage reveals how training, recovery, breathing, and mental focus—borrowed from sport—can transform performance and endurance.
Por Bengt Belfrage
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The use of the mind in instrumental performance
Relaxation, concentration and mental imagery reshape technical practice, linking self-confidence and instrumental control beyond physical training alone.
Por Michel Ricquier
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Basics in breathing
An Outline to a Better Sound
From breathing awareness to sound production, practical exercises link physical relaxation, air control and rhythmic precision in everyday brass playing.
Por Joel Elias
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Sophrology and Music
For brass players, physical tension and concert anxiety can become habitual obstacles, while sophrology offers a different approach to posture, memory and performance.
Por Robert Ischer
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Zen and the Art of Horn playing
From meditation to distance running, horn playing becomes a way of quieting mental noise, linking breath, concentration, and daily life.
Por Jeffrey Agrell
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Brass and Strings
A note on personality types among musicians
Behind the formal discipline of the symphony orchestra, contrasting views of brass and string players reveal enduring questions about personality, class and musical culture.
Por John Davies
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A Miracle Pill for Stage Fright?
What happens when performance anxiety is treated like a medical condition rather than a musical one, and where does that boundary ultimately lead?
Por Wilfried Buck
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A Little Trumpet Music
Stage fright, high A’s and a D trumpet turn an orchestral concert into an intimate account of the moment anxiety finally gives way to music.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Relaxation and musical performance
Breath, fingers and muscular tension form a hidden technical chain in wind playing, as Michel Ricquier links virtuosity to bodily awareness.
Por Michel Ricquier
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Herpes labialis (lip sores)
A brass players' affliction
For brass players, a common lip condition can mean weeks away from the instrument, linking embouchure, health habits and recurring interruptions.
Por Uwe Schwandt
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Parte 3
Zen and the Art of Horn playing
Between breath, reflex, and attention, Jeffrey Agrell links Zen practice with the physical and mental habits that shape brass playing.
Por Jeffrey Agrell
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The Trumpet in the USA
The Confidence Pill
Stage fright meets medical research as performers, physicians and early beta-blocker studies reshape the debate over confidence, fairness and public performance.
Por Thomas Stevens
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Editorial
Progress by Stages
Between technical routine and lived experience, musical growth emerges through setbacks, observation and the gradual shaping of an individual voice.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez