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 Practicegives 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 Practicecomes 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 Practiceis the essential handbook to personal achievement in successful, expressive musical performance.
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 Solf?ge 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
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