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- Condition
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- Book Title
- Integrated Practice: Coordination, Rhythm & Sound
- Publication Date
- 2011-07-08
- Pages
- 312
- ISBN
- 9780195317084
- Subject Area
- Music, Health & Fitness
- Publication Name
- Integrated Practice : Coordination, Rhythm and Sound
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 6.9 in
- Subject
- Alternative Therapies, Instruction & Study / General, Instruction & Study / Exercises, General, Instruction & Study / Techniques
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Series
- The Integrated Musician Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Weight
- 19.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 9.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195317084
ISBN-13
9780195317084
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99534172
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Integrated Practice : Coordination, Rhythm and Sound
Publication Year
2011
Subject
Alternative Therapies, Instruction & Study / General, Instruction & Study / Exercises, General, Instruction & Study / Techniques
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music, Health & Fitness
Series
The Integrated Musician Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Item Length
6.9 in
Item Width
9.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2010-017040
Reviews
"Integrated Practice is a remarkable tool for the aspiring musician on the road to understanding artistry." --Mimi Zweig, Professor, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University"Integrated Practice appeals to professional musicians and music lovers alike! This is a welcome guide through the vast field of practice routines. De Alcantara has a unique ability to bring this subject matter to life with convincing analogies and musical examples. Here, components such as rhythm, grid, sound, and coordination fit like mosaic stones into the larger picture of better and more efficient practice." --Babette Hierholzer, pianist"Whatever your stage or role in musical life, Pedro de Alcantara will guide you in his masterly way: leaping, lunging, singing, howling, and improvising toward musical enlightenment." --Wendy Williams, flutist, Minnesota Orchestra"A welcome addition to writing on the subject of the Alexander Technique and the application of its principles to music, the book is a testament to the breadth of the author's experience as a teacher...Wonderfully presented...Works well as a book one can explore over a period of time." --Music Education UK"INTEGRATED PRACTICE delves deeply into the most fundamental elements of music and connects them to universal aspects of human experience: speech, vibration, clarity of expression and the rhythms inherent in every movement we make...An important addition to every musician's working library." --AmSAT Journal"This fascinating, thought-provoking book aims to guide us to grasp and harness the connections between music, fundamental laws of nature, human speech and behaviour. Relevant to musicians of all ages and standards, its wisdom and insights are conveyed with a light touch, in a manner at once practical and imaginative, specific and universal, erudite and accessible." --The Strad"Alcantara provides exercises including movements, poetic recitation, conducting, and an assortment of interesting analogies and stories...The variety of information will help musicians of any age develop better coordination between emotion and technique." --American String Teacher"Alcantara's holistic teaching method, which interweaves the physical, theoretical, and interpretational aspects of making music, is one that many educators and performers will find useful...INTEGRATED PRACTICE is an intriguing and original read that will appeal widely to students and professionals alike." --Strings, "Integrated Practice is a remarkable tool for the aspiring musician on the road to understanding artistry." --Mimi Zweig, Professor, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University "Integrated Practice appeals to professional musicians and music lovers alike! This is a welcome guide through the vast field of practice routines. De Alcantara has a unique ability to bring this subject matter to life with convincing analogies and musical examples. Here, components such as rhythm, grid, sound, and coordination fit like mosaic stones into the larger picture of better and more efficient practice." --Babette Hierholzer, pianist "Whatever your stage or role in musical life, Pedro de Alcantara will guide you in his masterly way: leaping, lunging, singing, howling, and improvising toward musical enlightenment." --Wendy Williams, flutist, Minnesota Orchestra "A welcome addition to writing on the subject of the Alexander Technique and the application of its principles to music, the book is a testament to the breadth of the author's experience as a teacher...Wonderfully presented...Works well as a book one can explore over a period of time." --Music Education UK "INTEGRATED PRACTICE delves deeply into the most fundamental elements of music and connects them to universal aspects of human experience: speech, vibration, clarity of expression and the rhythms inherent in every movement we make...An important addition to every musician's working library." --AmSAT Journal "This fascinating, thought-provoking book aims to guide us to grasp and harness the connections between music, fundamental laws of nature, human speech and behaviour. Relevant to musicians of all ages and standards, its wisdom and insights are conveyed with a light touch, in a manner at once practical and imaginative, specific and universal, erudite and accessible." --The Strad "Alcantara provides exercises including movements, poetic recitation, conducting, and an assortment of interesting analogies and stories...The variety of information will help musicians of any age develop better coordination between emotion and technique." --American String Teacher "Alcantara's holistic teaching method, which interweaves the physical, theoretical, and interpretational aspects of making music, is one that many educators and performers will find useful...INTEGRATED PRACTICE is an intriguing and original read that will appeal widely to students and professionals alike." --Strings, "Integrated Practiceis a remarkable tool for the aspiring musician on the road to understanding artistry." --Mimi Zweig, Professor, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University "Integrated Practiceappeals to professional musicians and music lovers alike! This is a welcome guide through the vast field of practice routines. De Alcantara has a unique ability to bring this subject matter to life with convincing analogies and musical examples. Here, components such as rhythm, grid, sound, and coordination fit like mosaic stones into the larger picture of better and more efficient practice." --Babette Hierholzer, pianist "Whatever your stage or role in musical life, Pedro de Alcantara will guide you in his masterly way: leaping, lunging, singing, howling, and improvising toward musical enlightenment." --Wendy Williams, flutist, Minnesota Orchestra
Dewey Edition
23
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
781
Table Of Content
Introduction Part I: Rhythm 1. Words, Sounds, Gestures 2. Prosody, or the Secrets of Rhythm 3. The Grid: A Life Principle 4. The Metric Grid 5. Coincidence: Intention and Gesture 6. Rhythmic Solfège 7. The Metronome and the Rubato 8. Superbar Structures 9. Opposing The Grid 10. Patterning and Sequencing Part II: Coordination 11. Connection & Flow: First Principles 12. The Juggler: A Cello Lesson 13. Object Wisdom: An Oboe Lesson 14. Body, Breath, Vibration, Text: A Voice Lesson 15. The Quadrupedal Prosodist: A Piano Lesson Part III: Sound 16. The Harmonic Series 17. The Harmonic Series and the Voice 18. The Messa di Voce: Virtuosity of Contact 19. Practicing The Messa di Voce 20. Improvisation: A Lifestyle Conclusion Bibliographical Notes Bibliography Appendix: "The Exercises: An Overview" Index
Synopsis
INTEGRATED PRACTICE: COORDINATION, RHYTHM & SOUND proposes a new approach to musicianship, health, and wellbeing. Containing dozens of exercises and supported by an extensive online library of video and audio clips, INTEGRATED PRACTICE offers tools for instrumentalists, singers, and conductors to use music itself as their guide toward unity and freedom of mind and body., To be a musician is to "speak music." When you have something to say and you know how to say it, your gestures and sounds become both expressive and free. Offering an innovative, comprehensive approach to musicians' health and well-being, 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 "speak music" fluently, healthfully, and effectively.The key to mastering the language of music is rhythm. Integrated Practice contains an in-depth study of rhythm in music and in coordination, with dozens of exercises to help you infuse your gestures and musical phrases with rhythmic energy. The balance between structure and inventiveness is also essential to your well-being. Music is based on predictable grids of chords, scales, and time signatures, and yet your music-making ought to be unpredictable and fluid. Integrated Practice shows you how to establish an imaginative dialogue between the relatively inflexible structure of music and your own individual style as a singer, instrumentalist, or conductor.Integrated Practice covers the harmonic series in detail and includes novel approaches to improvisation, with exercises that you can apply to daily practice, rehearsing, and performing across the entire repertory. The book is accompanied by a dedicated website with dozens of video and audio clips that demonstrate the book's exercise., 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.
LC Classification Number
ML3820.A43 2011
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