The Role of Metacognitive Skills in Music Learning and Performing: Theoretical Features and Educational Implications.

Metacognition is a key component of musical performance. Metacognitive knowledge and skills are fundamental for musicians at all stages of their academic and professional career to allow them to structure, monitor, assess and, if needed, revise practice sessions toward specific performance goals. Research in music education has highlighted the impact that metacognition has on enhancing musical performance and the learning processes that characterize it.

Music Regulators in Two String Quartets: A Comparison of Communicative Behaviors between Low- and High-Stress Performance Conditions.

In ensemble performances, group members use particular bodily behaviors as a sort of "language" to supplement the lack of verbal communication. This article focuses on music regulators, which are defined as signs to other group members for coordinating performance. The following two music regulators are considered: body gestures for articulating attacks (a set of movements externally directed that are used to signal entrances in performance) and eye contact.

[Tuberculosis in Italy].

Author examines the reasons which in this century radically changed the epidemiological picture of tuberculosis in Italy as well as in other countries. Today the mortality and morbidity percentages are clearly lower than percentages pertinent to other pulmonary diseases, such COLD or lung cancer. Yet antitubercular struggle is not concluded: the chronic cases are still an important medical and social problem and Italian tuberculin indexes are not quite satisfactory.