The Individual Playing Diary

The individual playing diary was a kind of guided practice log that enabled the musicians to describe not just what specific passages they worked on, but also give researchers a sense of how they worked on each passage. The development of a musically expressive performance seemed to take place in four learning phases. In phase one, or initial exploration, involved playing through the piece to get a general feel and musical interpretation for the piece. Pase three was the construction of an expressive interpretation which factored in their own intuition, and feelings about the music - as well as hints and instructions written in the score by the composer. Fase two included solving technical difficulties; some did seem to be cognizant of the musical