Managing Your Head and Body so You Can Become a Good Musician: The Psychology of Musical Competence: A Student Musician's Field-Guide to Performance and Freedom from Performance Anxiety

by Richard H. Cox

Overview

"As a husband, parent, teacher, and performer I found many expressions of all the aspects of our musical art, as well as so many connections to the entire world of our musical art, as well as so many connections to the entire world of our existence, in Dr. Cox's book. I found these expressions to be very consistent with the approach that I myself, as well as so many of my world-class colleagues, have found to be our life stories. Thank you." --Adolf S. Herseth Principal Trumpet Emeritus Chicago Symphony Orchestra "Managing Your Head and Body So You Can Become a Good Musician tackles one of the fundamental dimensions of successful musical performance. Aspiring musicians need to know that mastering their instrument is only one element of their preparation for musical success. This book will help them begin to address the physical and psychological issues of performance so they can get to the heart of the issue--how to truly communicate with an audience." --Jacqueline Helin Steinway and Sons Artist

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781725228122
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	06/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	114
File size:	36 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Richard H. Cox writes from the perspective of a musician and music educator who holds earned doctorates in medicine, psychology, and theology and has been awarded three honorary doctorates. He is widely respected and regularly invited to present clinics, perform, and to conduct for national and international organizations such as the National Trumpet Competition, International Trumpet Guild, Midwest Clinic, Association of Concert Bands, and Interlochen Center for the Arts. He is an artist/clinician for Conn-Selmer, Inc. Dr. Cox's teachers and mentors have included Renold Schilke, Wesley Hanson, Bill Adams, Ronald Modell, Frank Kaderabek, Jim Elswick, John Blount, Alan Hood, Dennis Edelbrock, and David Zuercher. He has assisted hundreds of students and well-known professional musicians with psychological, physiological, medical, and other performance challenges. He is Professor and President Emeritus of the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology and is a former Provost and Professor at the Colorado School of Professional Psychology.
Richard H. Cox, author, psychologist, physician, and theologian is President Emeritus/Professor of the Forest Institute, an accredited graduate school of professional psychology. He is a charter member of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (retired) and ordained Presbyterian (USA) minister.