Research On Music Performance Anxiety From The Perspective Of Violinist

Music performance has always been a comprehensive test for performers,requiring not only mature and stable techniques,but also good psychological qualities.Many psychologists have determined that anxiety is divided into health anxiety and unhealthy anxiety,and 98% of the anxiety levels of music performers during performance belong to health anxiety.Anxious instrumental performer.In 2013,Loulia Papageorgi led a professional team to conduct a questionnaire survey on 244 musicians,170 undergraduates and 74 professional musicians on their anxiety about music performance.As the show nears,musicians’ anxiety increases,peaking before the show;then as the show progresses,the anxiety begins to diminish.They summed up the level of anxiety of musicians in three periods of performance: first,before the performance(including exercises and other activities),there was already a slight degree of anxiety in music performance;second,the degree of anxiety in music performance was the highest at the moment of performance closer to the performance.Third,In the process of performing,the level of music performance anxiety still exists,but it is decreasing.Krystian Zimerman believes that the lack of technique is an important factor that triggers performance anxiety.He once shared in a master class that the reason for performance anxiety is that the player is not capable enough to play certain pieces of music,because the player is subconsciously worried.Technical mistakes,such as missing notes and wrong notes,can cause tension when playing these difficult passages,prompting players to feel playing anxiety.The phenomenon of playing anxiety due to technical reasons is particularly prominent in violin playing.At the same time,Jiaxian Luo also mentioned a similar point of view: the mastery of the performer’s performance is an important reason for the tension of the stage performance.Violin players need to have good left and right hand control skills,such as left hand pitch,rhythm,clarity,right hand bow speed control,jumping bow,continuous bow and other techniques.The control of these techniques can only be achieved by correct and effective practice before the performance.If the player is not well prepared before the performance,it will increase the probability of mistakes in performance,which will cause the performance anxiety of the violin player.It can be seen that part of the performance anxiety of music performers comes from their own technical problems,and the other part is caused by external factors.As a violin player,the violin performance anxiety described in this article is mainly based on the types of techniques that lead to violin performance anxiety;the author takes the analysis of specific factors that lead to performance anxiety before violin performance as the focus of the article;Solo works,research reports,and interview cases are taken as examples to analyze the technical difficulties that performers will encounter before performing.Control ability,psychological adjustment ability,etc.So as to relieve performance anxiety and reduce the impact of performance anxiety on players during performance.This article will also analyze the uncontrollable unexpected factors that will appear in its performances and study its on-the-spot countermeasures.The full text is divided into four parts,the first part is the introduction,which mainly expounds the research status,research motivation,research significance and methods at home and abroad.In the second part,the definition of the concept of music performance anxiety is divided into the source of music performance anxiety,the definition of music performance anxiety and the division of music performance anxiety;the third part mainly studies the technical,psychological and external factors of violin players who are prone to performance anxiety reason.It expounds the factors that cause anxiety before performance and the types of unexpected mistakes that will be encountered during performance,and analyzes from the technical point of view and other factors based on the actual performance experience of most performers;the fourth part corresponds to the third part,performance.Anxiety factors in the three periods before,during and after the performance will be analyzed separately,and the countermeasures that can alleviate the anxiety of violin playing will be analyzed,so as to provide a reference for solving the anxiety of violin playing.