The purpose of this study was to explore musicians’ approaches to performance during practice and identify the factors that underpinned their approaches. We hypothesised that musicians would be able to recall their focus, knowledge and thoughts of their own repertoire during music performance and that such data would reveal musicians’ cognitive behaviours during the performance. By analysing musicians’ retrospective verbal protocols, we found that musicians used four main reasoning processes – study, static analysis, intuition and performer’s analysis – in their approach to music performance. The findings show that musicians utilise multiple cognitive behaviours for music performance. The implications for instrumental music teaching are discussed.

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说起自己的曲目：练习中的音乐表演调查

本研究的目的是探索音乐家在练习过程中的表演方法，并确定支撑他们方法的因素。我们假设音乐家在音乐表演期间能够回忆起他们对自己曲目的关注、知识和想法，并且这些数据将揭示音乐家在表演期间的认知行为。通过分析音乐家的回顾性口头协议，我们发现音乐家使用了四个主要的推理过程——学习，静态分析，直觉和表演者分析——在他们的音乐表演方法中。研究结果表明，音乐家利用多种认知行为进行音乐表演。讨论了对器乐教学的影响。