Clorinda Panebianco

• DMus
• Professor at University of Pretoria

The positive impact of group music-making on subjective well-being has been shown in various contexts, yet very few studies have focused on community musicals. The purpose of this intrinsic case study was to explore the well-being of adults who participated in Whoop-Up , a musical variety show consisting of singing, dancing and acting, for parents,...

This study examined the experienced impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the resilience, art activities, and income among performance and visual artists in a low-to middle-income country, including the relationship between resilience and art activities. Practicing artists in South Africa with a tertiary qualification in visual or performance art were...

The increasing performance and academic demands within the tertiary setting, in conjunction with perfectionistic behaviour and ruminative thinking, may contribute towards mental health difficulties among music students. The current study explored the relationship between perfectionism, rumination, mindfulness and mental health in music students. Us...

This collective case study aimed to explore the various expected roles for parents of preschool children in group music lessons in the Klang Valley of West Malaysia, the area located around Kuala Lumpur. We collected data by conducting two semi-structured interviews with 10 parents and three teachers of three preschool group music classes. Four bro...

Background: The prevalence of playing-related musculoskeletal problems (PRMPs) in professional musicians is well documented in the literature, but few studies have been done on South African professional musicians. Objective: The present study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of PRMPs, pain intensity, and pain interference among full-time and pa...

A growing concern is the low number of learners who choose to participate in music during their high school years. Extending previous research by McPherson and O’Neill, this study explored South African high school learners’ motivation and value perceptions to continue with music as an elective in grade 10. A further objective was to understand how...

Evidence of the high prevalence of physical and psychological problems among professional and student classical musicians has led to investigations of music students' health-promoting behaviours. These have indicated lower levels of engagement in health-promoting behaviours among music students compared to non-music students and resulted in the rec...

The relationship between a parent and a teacher can be fraught with difficulties because of role conflicts that may result from the negotiations that occur between them. We synthesized recent perspectives drawn from the research literature on parent-teacher relationships with that of role theory, and aim to demonstrate how the current research lite...

The benefits in speech-in-noise perception, language and cognition brought about by extensive musical training in adults and children have been demonstrated in a number of cross-sectional studies. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether one year of school-delivered musical training, consisting of individual and group instrumental classes...

Purpose Working memory capacity and language ability modulate speech reception; however, the respective roles of peripheral and cognitive processing are unclear. The contribution of individual differences in these abilities to utilization of spatial cues when separating speech from informational and energetic masking backgrounds in children has not...

The score of Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VII for solo oboe exhibits a strict and definite temporal space, yet most performers do not manage to perform the work within the prescribed time. The score is presented as a matrix with thirteen lines and columns and each line undergoes a temporal compression. The impetus of this practitioner-based study was d...

Developing effective parent–teacher relationships in music lessons is important for the well-being and learning outcomes of the learners. The aim of this collective case study was to explore the relationship between teachers and parents of pre-school children in group music lessons in the Klang Valley, which is an area in West Malaysia centred on K...

Prior research has demonstrated the positive effect of music therapy for people with Parkinson’s disease, much of which is concerned with functional motor-related goals and their quantitative measurement. However, few studies qualitatively address details of the music therapy process itself. This interpretivist case study sought to understand the t...

Perfectionism is a complex multidimensional state with positive and negative outcomes. Research has identified that parents could influence perfectionistic inclinations, which may lead to increased levels of anxiety and ultimately lead to maladaptive tendencies. The aim of the study is to explore the role of parents in the experience of perfectioni...

This study explored the efficacy of psychological skills and mindfulness training intervention on the psychological wellbeing of undergraduate music students. Participants were undergraduate music students (n = 36) from the Department of Music at a South African university, 21 of whom were elected to take the psychological skills and mindfulness tr...

Flow, also known as “the zone”, is a positive enjoyable psychological state often linked to optimal performance. The aim of this study is to explore professional ballet dancers’ subjective experiences of flow in a current performance context. Csikszentmihalyi's (1990) model of the flow state is used for its applicability to professional ballet danc...

The study evaluated self-reported health-promoting behaviors and psychosocial well-being of undergraduate music students (n = 144) and was designed as an attempt to replicate and extend previous studies. The goals were (a) to differentiate those behaviors in undergraduate music students, and (b) to examine the influences of gender and instrument pl...

Musiektydskrifte in Suid-Afrika 1854-2010: 'n Geannoteerde bibliografie Suid-Afrika se ryk musiekerfenis kan duidelik gesien word in die talle musiekpublikasies in die vorm van tydskrifte, nuusbriewe en elektroniese tydskrifte. Hierdie musiekhistoriese erfenis strek oor meer as 150 jaar. Die artikel se fokus is om 'n geannoteerde bibliografie van m...

Summary in Afrikaans and English. Thesis (M.Mus. (Musicology))-Universiteit van Pretoria, 1994.