Efeitos da prática mental sobre o desempenho de músicos clarinetistas em uma partitura heterogênea e atonal

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Ricardo Ramos De [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/trabalhoConclusao/viewTrabalhoConclusao.jsf?popup=true&id_trabalho=6368211; https://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/52892
• topic: Mental practice; Mental rehearsal; Motor imagery; Auditory imagery; Anxiety; Performance anxiety; Music; Musical performance; Prática mental; Ensaio mental; Imaginação motora; Imaginação Auditiva; Ansiedade; Ansiedade de desempenho; Música; Desempenho musical

Introduction: Mental practice is the cognitive rehearsal of a task without the participation of apparent physical movements. Combined with physical practice, it can be an effective strategy to improve performance on a given task. In this study, the mental practice was used by clarinetists to learn an unprecedented, heterogeneous and atonal music. Objective: To investigate the effects of training that combines mental practice with physical practice on clarinetist performance and its interaction with performance anxiety levels. Methods: Participants were allocated in 3 different groups as to the practice of the score or not. Everyone played the song for the first time (reading at first sight) and a last one (test), between these two executions there was a training stage where a group performed only physical practices; another inserted physical practice with mental practice and the third group did not perform any practice, only did the reading of some texts. Results: In terms of accuracy of musical notes, there was a significant effect on the interaction of both the physical practice group and the group that combined physical practice with mental practice with the improvement of performance when observed the total of measures played correctly, being only the group that did not practice at all, did not improve performance. The analysis of the hit number or error number in each measure showed a great variability in the level of difficulty between them. Regarding temporal regularity, all groups improved. There was no significant difference in anxiety levels, either between the groups, nor between baseline and pre-test. Discussion: Decreasing the amount of physical practice did not affect the performance of the clarinetists when performing a heterogeneous score, with varying degree of difficulty between the measures. Conclusion: Thus, this suggests that mental practice may be an effective strategy to reduce the amount of physical practice, without compromising performance.