Elżbieta Waszkiewicz1ABCDE, Robert Bąk 2ABCDE*

 

1 Państwowa Szkoła Muzyczna I i II Stopnia, Suwałki, Poland 
2 Institute of Physical Culture Studies, College of Medical Sciences, University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów, Poland

Authors:

Waszkiewicz Elżbieta: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7613-9736
Bąk Robert: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3011-4004

 * Corresponding author: Robert Bąk, Institute of Physical Culture Studies, College of Medical Sciences, University of Rzeszów. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

 

Abstract

Background and Study Aim: Teaching instrumental music is also an area of application of INNOAGON's unique methods, means and tools. The basis of such an assumption is the premise of the health effects of many years of practice of instrumental musicians. It is estimated that a musician plays an instrument for over half a century on average, and many stage musicians after the age of 50 almost constantly use the services of masseurs and even orthopaedists. The aim of the work is to recommend an empirically verified method of monitoring health, mental, motor and artistic indicators during violin lessons (sessions).

Material and Methods: The original Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of the Musician's Psychomotor Exertion During the Session method includes the measurement of: heart rate (HR), sense of pain (on a scale of 0 to 10), motivation (on a scale of 1 to 10) and motor-artistic effect (on a scale of 1 to 25). First, the music teacher (August 2024), under the guidance of an expert in measuring and documenting physical exertion, self-assessed several of her own violin playing sessions, also documenting the remaining indicators in the above-mentioned document. From 10.09.2024 to 12.11.2024, she observed 9 lessons (sessions) of a nine-year-old third-grade violin student (Lucy) at a first-degree state music school. The student, with 33 months of experience in music education, took second place in two national competitions (December 2024) and received international awards in a hybrid competition of violinists in her age group. The violin teacher has over thirty years of teaching experience (51 as a practicing musician). Based on the available complementary research methodology recommendations, the authors compared the documented indicators of the student with observations of the sessions of a teacher who was intersubjectively considered a model.

Results: The similarities of the effort only concern the intensity zones (borderline of low and moderate) and respecting the warm-up based on psychomotor tasks without the violin and bow. Differences: the main part of the student sessions each time included two complexes of violin specific tasks (the first one, in the initial phase, was also an extension of the warm-up, but based on specific to violin playing), while the teacher's 4. The similarities of monitoring health indicators concern the pain experienced during the psychomotor activity, while the differences concern HR before the effort. The documented motivation for the student's psychomotor activities differs from the teacher's model. The teacher assessed her own motor and artistic indicators higher than the student's. The positively correlated indicators of the student's musical complexes of psychomotor tasks are very high (r = 0.805, p<0.01). The teacher assessed the range and tempo of movement the highest in herself (M = 22.25 points), and the student's power (M = 20.33 points).

Conclusions: The conjunction of the results of these pioneering observations with the most general mission of innovative agonology, i.e. oriented towards promotion, prevention and therapy encompassing all dimensions of health (apart from the seemingly distant survival thread) is an evidence-based argument that this science meets social expectations.

Keywords: complete possibility of action, dispositional feasibility, effort safety, INNOAGON, motor safety, situational actionability, warm-up


AMA:
Waszkiewicz E, Bąk R. An innovative method of monitoring health, mental, motor, and artistic indicators during violin lessons. Archives of Budo Journal of Innovative Agonology. 2024;20.
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APA:
Waszkiewicz, E., & Bąk, R. (2024). An innovative method of monitoring health, mental, motor, and artistic indicators during violin lessons. Archives of Budo Journal of Innovative Agonology, 20.
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Chicago:
Waszkiewicz, Elżbieta, and Robert Bąk. "An Innovative Method of Monitoring Health, Mental, Motor, and Artistic Indicators During Violin Lessons." Archives of Budo Journal of Innovative Agonology 20 (2024).
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Harvard:
Waszkiewicz, E., & Bąk, R., 2024. An innovative method of monitoring health, mental, motor, and artistic indicators during violin lessons. Archives of Budo Journal of Innovative Agonology, 20.
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MLA:
Waszkiewicz, Elżbieta, and Robert Bąk. "An Innovative Method of Monitoring Health, Mental, Motor, and Artistic Indicators During Violin Lessons." Archives of Budo Journal of Innovative Agonology, vol. 20, 2024.
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Vancouver:
Waszkiewicz E, Bąk R. An innovative method of monitoring health, mental, motor, and artistic indicators during violin lessons. Archives of Budo Journal of Innovative Agonology. 2024;20