2019 Volume 25 Issue 1 Pages 21-28
Music performers often reflect on whether they can follow the composer.s images through the music score, realize their own images, and convey such images to listeners. These notions can be called expressive awareness in music performance. The purpose of this study is to develop psychological scales for expressive awareness in music performance for music performance learners such as music students. An expert in music education along with two psychologists conducted a questionnaire survey with 180 undergraduates (M＝20.04, SD＝ 2.17) who majored in music. Factor analysis indicated a three-factor structure of expressive awareness in music performance: .Conveying the messages to the audience,. .Matching the performer.s intention and method for expression,. and .Following the music score.. Each factor of expressive awareness demonstrated sufficient reliability (Cronbach.s α＞.70). This scale is thought to be useful to understand how music performers practice and learn to perform better.
