Beneficial Influences of Music on Choral Performers

摘要

Purpose: Demonstration and evaluation of the beneficial influences that performers experience, due to this musical activities. Methods: a questionnaire with 20 questions on a group of 50 chorus girl, aged after 12 years . Questions aimed at challenging and stressful aspects involved to participation in a choir with a high level of demand for quality musical performance. It also refers to the psychosomatic benefits that young participants are experiencing as a result of learning and practicing music. Results: 90 % is the average level of satisfaction they experience in concert performance; 19 % think that the intellectual effort and request, necessary to build a new repertoire, are very high, 54 % believe that the work is hard and 24% moderate. It can be considered a stressor but also represents a valuable way of developing intellectual skills; although respondents were very young and healthy people, about 37 % of them said they regularly suffer headaches and / or stomach, insomnia and even heart palpitations and dizziness. All (except one) were considered to have experienced the situation to escape such conditions when they were in the choir (42 % of them somewhat and 57 % of them more); approximately 44 % of chorus girl believes as "not stressful" the fact of going to chorus, even during demanding evaluation periods from school. Furthermore, there were answers that have found that participation in the choir is a release from current, school duties tension. Conclusions: The study highlights the many beneficial aspect of sustained involvement in ensemble musical activity.