tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post7669263129448151313..comments2024-03-23T11:40:13.092-05:00Comments on Musical Assumptions: Maslow's World and How it Applies to MusicElaine Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-28043893093217352232011-11-06T06:35:48.136-06:002011-11-06T06:35:48.136-06:00Interesting! I came across the four stage model of...Interesting! I came across the four stage model of learning some years ago, but had no idea it came from Maslow, whom I have usually associated with the hierarchy of needs concept. <br /><br />Some of the work neurologists are doing these days shed new light on these processes; I wrote a little about this a while back:<br />http://www.helpingyouharmonise.com/Iacoboni1liz garnetthttp://www.helpingyouharmonise.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-38022725748967123692011-10-31T15:06:05.589-05:002011-10-31T15:06:05.589-05:00"Flow" is also a concept which has been ..."Flow" is also a concept which has been used to describe peak sports accomplishments.<br /><br />In all such cases, the real issue seems one of losing sense of "self" and especially that critical sense which stops said "flow."<br /><br />One might look at the massive portfolios of Picasso, Chagall or Modigliani to see regular "flow." The making of many works implies not so much speed as flow, in which the self is no longer in the foreground. Rather the making is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-69982574009182725072011-10-30T12:44:53.627-05:002011-10-30T12:44:53.627-05:00Touché!
Great points, which hadn't occurred ...Touché! <br /><br />Great points, which hadn't occurred to me - thanks again. Here's a quote from Hilary Hahn about what I was trying to get at.<br /><br />>>The problem is that acoustic performers rely on the audience's attention and focus and can tell when the audience isn't mentally present. Your listening is part of our interpretive process. If you're not really listening, we're not getting the feedback of energy from the hall, and then we might as well be practicing for a bunch of people peering in the window. It's just not as interesting when the cycle of interpretation is broken.<<Lyle Sanford, RMThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-69416628709975747692011-10-29T13:30:52.901-05:002011-10-29T13:30:52.901-05:00I tend to think of the relationship I have to a pa...I tend to think of the relationship I have to a particular piece of music (or even a particular passage) as a kind of social interaction with the composer--or with the composer's muse at the time. By extension, I suppose that playing music written by someone else is never a fully solitary activity!Elaine Finehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-85100467425631965622011-10-29T11:59:34.125-05:002011-10-29T11:59:34.125-05:00Very, very helpful post - Thanks. Came across Masl...Very, very helpful post - Thanks. Came across Maslow for the first time since the 60's when reading up on "flow" and saw where he renamed as "peak experience" what had previously been called "transcendence".<br /><br />Synchronistically, just this morning had a conversation with a musical friend and we agreed that pure "flow" is in part social - you can't get there by yourself - there have to be other players and/or a live audience. But neither of us are pros, so your idea that it can be achieved in solitary practice could well be the case for high level players.Lyle Sanford, RMThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-36850581334610088052011-10-27T21:32:45.007-05:002011-10-27T21:32:45.007-05:00Thank you for introducing us to Abraham Maslow. I ...Thank you for introducing us to Abraham Maslow. I can see that I'll be busy reading for a while, as now I've put his books on reserve from the library. It'll be interesting to integrate Maslow's approach into my teaching. Looking forward to the journey.Marjorie Kransberg-Talvihttp://mktalvi.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com