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Abstract: The purpose of this document is to investigate how trumpet students at the University of North Texas experience music performance anxiety and to find out how professors prepare students for controlling music performance anxiety experiences. The interviewees were ten undergraduates and ten graduate students, as well as three trumpet professors who teach at the University of North Texas. The questionnaire responses of the student interviewees were examined, and literature is provided that address the most common performance related psychological and physiological symptoms experienced by the trumpet students. Effective and healthy strategies are discussed that were offered by the trumpet professors, and suggestions are made regarding potential benefits and detriments of trumpet performance anxiety.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to music performance anxiety
• Results of student interviews
• Results of the teacher interviews
• Conclusion
• Appendix A : Student interview questions
• Appendix B : Student interview transcriptions
• Appendix C : Teacher interview questions
• Appendix D : Teacher interview transcriptions.

Author/Creator:

Ruggiero, Nicole M. , author

Contributors:

Samayoa, Raquel Rodriquez , major professor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Anxiety and Trumpet Performance: An Exploratory Study [by Ruggiero, N.M.]

Related Series:

NT dissertation, Music (Complete); [volume] 2020

Subjects:

Performance anxiety

Trumpet players

Genres:

Academic theses

Interviews

Dissertation Notes:

D.M.A. ― University of North Texas, 2020.

General Notes:

Discipline: Performance.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-82).
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (UNT Digital Library, viewed December 1, 2021).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 82 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

Electronic Dissertation

OCLC Numbers:

1287597643