Piano Teaching Psychology

The research of piano teaching has been developing for 300 years since the art of piano appeared three centuries ago. Since the 19th century psychology theory was applied to music research gradually. The research focused on the psychology of the doers of the music behaviors had become one part of the research of music, and great achievements had been obtained. Now as one part of music research the research of piano has combined with the psychological research. Basing on the theories of psychology, music psychology and piano pedagogy, seven principal psychological elements of piano teaching were discussed in the dissertation. The research will lay a theory foundation of psychology for piano teaching and bring forward scientific teaching methods according to the principle of psychology.This dissertation comprises three segments:Chapter 1: the formation of the skill of piano performance. The skill of piano performance is the foundation of the ability of performance. The dissertation defined the skill of piano performance as one kind of operation skill and discussed the training methods of the skill.Chapter 2: the psychological elements in the study of piano. Attention, volition and the anamnesis of music are analyzed separately in this segment. The dissertation principally discussed the training of good attention and staunch volition and the formation of scientific anamnesis methods.Chapter 3: the psychological elements in piano performance. There are three parts in this chapter-imagination, reins and mentation of the executant on the stage. The imagination and reins is the base on which the executant can represent the theme of the opus successfully. Combining withthe theories of psychology and music aesthetics this dissertation discussed how to train imagination and how to control and inspire the reins of the executant. In the last part of this chapter the dissertation analyzed the change of the executant's psychological and physical conditions and discussed the elements, which result in the anxiety of the executant. In the end the dissertation introduced the main methods to alleviate the anxiety of the executant and some popular therapeutics in the world.