The transformation of music into movement takes place while dancing, singing, and playing an instrument. The human capacity for beat induction facilitates rhythmic movement to the musical beat, a capacity share with only a few animals. While Parkinson patients are limited in their locomotive abilities, …

The concept of Lifelong Learning refers to all purposeful learning throughout life, transforming experience into knowledge and skills, attitudes, values, emotions, beliefs, and the senses. Lifelong learning is cognitive, but also emotional and practical. It embraces formal, but also non-formal and informal …

Individuals take possession of their lives by connecting who they are to what they do. The Protean musician is one who not only performs but pursues a lifelong series of identity changes based on continuous learning. Musicians focus on learning how to learn, on adaptability, and on developing knowledge …

Classical musicians dream of an international performance career, a ‘Musotopia’ , in which they are able to make a living only by playing concerts. Reality tells us that 77% of performers earn over half of their income from teaching, and that 90% have a secondary occupation. Is there still work for performers? …

Designing an innovative performance based on alternatives to the ‘Classical Code’ enables one to reach out to a new audience. Steps towards a viable design are: motivation, social relevance, characteristics of the audience, identification of elements of the 'classical code' that need to be modified, …

Performance opportunities for classical musicians seem to be declining. Nevertheless, the growth of creative industries is larger than that of the economy. Current emphasis is more on touring, Internet, and non-live performance. Financial viability depends on advertising, social media, merchandising, …

The way we present music to our audiences is regulated by an implicit code of behavior. Characteristics of that code are a strict difference between performer and listener (exclusive entrance for performers, framing and elevation of the stage, lighting, and dress code).The hall is a consecrated area, …

While improvisation is considered to be an art form, particularly in jazz, but also in eighteenth-century music, it may also be seen as an didactic instrument which can be used to develop implicit knowledge of music syntax. Two types of syntax may be distinguished: finite state grammars and hierarchical …

The realization of one’s musical ideas at the keyboard is dependent on the ability to transform sound into movement, a process called audiomotor transformation. Using fMRI, we investigated cerebral activations while classically-trained improvising and non-improvising musicians imagined playing along …

Parkinson’s disease is characterized not only by bradykinesia, rigidity, and tremor, but also by impairments of expressive and receptive linguistic prosody. The facilitating effect of music with a salient beat on patients’ gait suggests that it might have a similar effect on vocal behavior, however it …