Learning and teaching musical performance: Changing conceptions and educational practices

During the last few years, the education of musical interpretation in conservatotres is demanding a change due to 1) curricular reforms that have taken place and 2) progress made by research in this field. Nevertheless, these demands of change towards an education based on a constructivist model have scarcely reached the reality of the classroom. It is proposed that one of the reasons for this resistance to change is teachers' and pupils' implicit conceptions about learning and education, The paper also introduces the rest of the studies that make up this monographic issue.