The Alexander Technique for Musicians

The Alexander Technique for Musicians
Title The Alexander Technique for Musicians PDF eBook
Author Judith Kleinman
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 410
Release 2013-11-21
Genre Music
ISBN 1408176831

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The Alexander Technique for Musicians is a unique guide for all musicians, providing a practical, informative approach to being a successful and comfortable performer. Perfect as an introduction to the Alexander Technique, or to supplement the reader's lessons, the book looks at daily and last-minute practice, breathing, performance and performance anxiety, teacher–pupil relationships, ensemble skills, and the application of the Alexander Technique to instrumental and vocal work. Complete with diagrams and photographs to aid the learning process, as well as step-by-step procedures and diary entries written by participating students, The Alexander Technique for Musicians gives tried-and-tested advice, drawn from the authors' twenty-plus years of experience working with musicians, providing an essential handbook for musicians seeking the most from themselves and their art.

Indirect Procedures

Indirect Procedures
Title Indirect Procedures PDF eBook
Author Pedro de Alcantara
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 272
Release 2013-06-17
Genre Music
ISBN 0199874824

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A musician's life is filled with many stressful situations: passing auditions, rehearsing and performing with difficult partners, sitting for long hours in uncomfortable chairs, going on stage to face audiences large and small, who may or may not be receptive to the performance they are presented. And yet many musicians are able to surmount these looming obstacles with grace and balance, to find satisfaction and artistry in their music and build productive and lasting careers. Indirect Procedures will guide you around these obstacles and along that path to becoming a balanced and successful musician. Based on the work of Frederick Matthias Alexander, this book is a thorough and practical approach to the issues of musicians' health and wellbeing. Author Pedro de Alcantara introduces concepts and exercises for musicians to let go of excessive tensions, stay focused, and direct their energies as they handle the challenges of practicing, rehearsing, and performing. Complemented by an extensive, easy-to-use companion website, and working alongside Integrated Practice, this new edition of Indirect Procedures is an invaluable and essential resource for today's musicians to learn to sing, play, and conduct with less effort and stronger results.

Voice and the Alexander Technique

Voice and the Alexander Technique
Title Voice and the Alexander Technique PDF eBook
Author Jane Ruby Heirich
Publisher Books that Change
Pages 174
Release 2011
Genre Alexander technique
ISBN 9780964435292

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Integrative Alexander Technique Practice for Performing Artists

Integrative Alexander Technique Practice for Performing Artists
Title Integrative Alexander Technique Practice for Performing Artists PDF eBook
Author Cathy Madden
Publisher
Pages 404
Release 2014
Genre MEDICAL
ISBN 9781783202195

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"An educational method used to improve performance, the Alexander Technique teaches people to replace unnecessary muscular and mental effort with consciously coordinated responses, maximizing effectiveness while also relieving, if necessary, any chronic stiffness or stress ... [The book] addresses common concerns, such as concentration, relaxation, discipline-specific techniques, warm-ups, performer/audience relationships, stage fright and critical responses ... in the application of the techniques."--Provided by publisher.

Integrated Practice

Integrated Practice
Title Integrated Practice PDF eBook
Author Pedro de Alcantara
Publisher
Pages 307
Release 2011
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 0195317076

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To be a musician is to "speak music." When you have something to say and the means to say it, your gestures and sounds become both meaningful and free. Offering an innovative, comprehensive approach to musicians' health and wellbeing, Integrated Practice gives you the tools to combine total-body awareness with a deep and practical understanding of the rhythmic structure of the musical language, so that you can use the musical text itself as your guide toward psychophysical and creative freedom. The book shows you how to establish an imaginative dialogue between the relatively inflexible structure of music and your individual personality as a singer, instrumentalist, or conductor, and it explains how you can use the acoustic phenomenon of the harmonic series to make big, beautiful sounds with little muscular effort. Integrated Practice comes with more than a hundred and fifty exercises demonstrated by video and audio clips on an extensive companion website that will inform your daily practice, improvising, rehearsing, and performing. With this array of resources for every learning style, Integrated Practice is the essential handbook to personal achievement in successful, expressive musical performance.

Dance and the Alexander Technique

Dance and the Alexander Technique
Title Dance and the Alexander Technique PDF eBook
Author Rebecca Nettl-Fiol
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 218
Release 2011
Genre Education
ISBN 0252077938

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Rebecca Nettl-Fiol and Luc Vanier utilize their ten years of research on developmental movement and dance training to explore the relationship between a specific movement technique and the basic principles of support and coordination.

The Alexander Technique For Actors

The Alexander Technique For Actors
Title The Alexander Technique For Actors PDF eBook
Author Kelly McEvenue
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 184
Release 2016-01-14
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1474279120

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This practical book with illustrations links Alexander technique to acting, dancing and singing by the trainer of performers on The Lion King The Alexander Technique is a method of physical relaxation that reduces tension and strain throughout the body. It promotes a beneficial use of movement that is stress-free by learning to free-up the body. It teaches an individual to use their body efficiently in order to avoid damage or loss of control. Kelly McEvenue has been teaching the Alexander Technique to performers for nearly twenty years and is a world expert on the system. In this book she draws on her considerable experience and sets up a series of set-by-step warm-ups and exercises that anybody can follow. The exercises are linked to accurate anatomical drawings, showing where stress is most pronounced in the body. The Foreword is by Patsy Rodenburg, Head of Voice for the Royal National Theatre and author of Methuen titles The Right to Speak and The Actor Speaks.