Pedro De Alcantara

Integrated Practice

Coordination, Rhythm & Sound

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Integrated Practice proposes a new approach to musicianship, health, and well-being. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780195317084
• ISBN-10: 0195317084
• Artikelnr.: 32727773

Autorenporträt

Pedro de Alcantara is a musician, writer, and teacher. His books include Indirect Procedures: A Musician's Guide to the Alexander Technique, The Alexander Technique: A Skill for Life, and the children's novels Befiddled and Backtracked. He lives in Paris and New York, and he travels the world giving seminars and master classes.

Inhaltsangabe

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 and 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