Abstract—Minimalist music offers string players, particularly young string players, a way to broaden their performance repertoire and enhance knowledge of their playing skills. Minimalist music also offers young string players an array of different learning materials that could transform their performance experience and utilize technological equipment into practice. Minimalist music was developed in the 1960s and, although most of the skills necessary to play it are not new or invented, its technical requirement and stage setting differ radically from the existing musical tradition. During the teaching and learning process, music educators should consider how stage fright could affect young string player’s performance, how to develop aural skills in the musical training and how stage setting structures before a live performance. This research will investigate these demands of minimalist music on young string players.
Index Terms—Minimalism, string playing, performance preparation, stage fright, aural training.
Ang-Cheng Kris Ho is with the Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University, United International College, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China (e-mail: krisho@uic.edu.hk).
Victor J. Rodriguez is with Sino-American College (SUC) at Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China (e-mail: victor.rodriguez@suc.bitzh.edu.cn).
Cite: Ang-Cheng Kris Ho and Victor J. Rodriguez, "Teaching Minimalist Music at the Fundamental Level: Performance Preparation and Stage Fright," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 231-235, 2019.