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SUMMARY:Mastering the time in music performance (and elsewhere): Reconnect
 ing with the past\, feeling the future and enjoying the present  - Dr Lás
 zló Stachó\, Liszt Academy of Music\, Budapest &amp\; Faculty of Music\,
  University of Szeged
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:Time is an essential\, if not the most crucial\, element of mu
 sic in almost all cultures. Music unfolds in time – but sometimes create
 s it\, as music has a strong potential to suspend time. In fact\, how do w
 e feel time when we perform\, or listen to\, music? Based on research from
  music and sport psychology\, attention studies and music pedagogy\, I int
 roduce a thoroughly new model of mental strategies and attentional process
 es underlying performance expressivity that builds on temporality. I argue
  that the essence of expressivity is what and how we feel in real time and
  this activity is connected to a vivid mental imagery process. Typically\,
  this imagery builds on moments of deep immersion and involves a specific 
 kind of attentional processing\, i.e.\, a ‘navigating’ mental imagery\
 , which includes directing of the attention forward (‘anticipation’)\,
  backward (‘retrospection’)\, and to the present moment (‘mindfulnes
 s’) at well-definable points of the performance process. This model has 
 tremendous potential for pedagogical application – not only in music but
  in many other arts and areas of life.\n\n*László Stachó* is a musicolo
 gist\, psychologist and musician. Dr Stachó works at the Liszt Academy of
  Music\, Budapest\, and at the University of Szeged (one of the two twin c
 ities of Cambridge)\, and is currently Visiting Fellow at the University o
 f Cambridge and Downing College. His research in music psychology focuses 
 on emotional communication in music performance\, and in music pedagogy on
  developing effective and creative working and instrumental practice metho
 ds. Over the past few years\, he has been involved in a countrywide planni
 ng of music education curricula in Hungary\, including the National Core C
 urriculum and conservatoire curricula. As a pianist and chamber musician\,
  he has performed in several European countries and the US\, and conducts 
 attentional skills training workshops and chamber music coaching sessions 
 at international masterclasses both in Hungary and abroad (including in Br
 itain at the King’s College London\, and regularly in Italy\, at the San
 ta Cecilia Conservatoire\, Rome).\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
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