Training for sustained performance: moving toward long-term musician development

Clark, T. and Lisboa, T. (2013) Training for sustained performance: moving toward long-term musician development. Medical Problems of Performing Artists, 28 pp. 159-168. ISSN 0885-1158

Abstract

Success in the performing arts, like sports, is dependent upon the acquisition and consistent use of a diverse range of skills. In sports, an understanding of safe and effective use of the body is required to facilitate long-term involvement in that activity. In order to assist athletes to attain their performance goals, and ensure healthy and sustained involvement, long-term athlete development (LTAD) models have been devised and adapted by professional sporting bodies throughout the world. LTAD models emphasize the intellectual, emotional, and social development of the athlete, encourage long-term participation in physical activities, and enable participants to improve their overall health and well-being and increase their life-long participation in physical activity. At present there is no such long-term development model for musicians. Yet musicians must cope with a multitude of career-related physical and mental demands, and performance-related injuries and career burnout are rife within the profession. Despite this, musicians' training rarely addresses such issues and musicians are left largely to learn about them through either chance or accrued experience. This paper discusses key concepts and recommendations in LTAD models, together with music-specific research highlighting the need for the development of a comprehensive long-term approach to musicians' training. The results of a survey of existing music training programs are compared to recommendations and the different development stages in LTAD models. Finally, implementation science is introduced as a methodological option for identifying how best to communicate the body of evidence-based knowledge concerning healthy and effective music-making to young student musicians.

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Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Long-term athlete development, long-term musician development, musical training, implementation science
Subjects:	M Music and Books on Music > MT Musical instruction and study Performance Science Music Psychology Music Education
Division:	Performance Science
Depositing User:	Terry Clark
Date Deposited:	22 Aug 2017 13:48
Last Modified:	09 Mar 2020 16:05
URI:	https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/259

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