Study on the Expressiveness in the Performance of Children

2013

This work studies the characteristics of musical expressiveness in children’s performances through comparison of musical structures and behavioral patterns in executing music. The aim is to offer effective information useful in instrumental teaching, and elements of comparison with the performance of advanced students and mu-sicians. Three ten-year-old piano students learned a piece previously unknown from Bartok’s Mikrokosmos. During the learning process their teacher kept a log of the indications given to the children regarding musical content and performance practices. When the children could play the piece fluidly by memory, a video tape was made during a lesson. After about ten days du…