Integrated Practice: Coordination, Rhythm Sound [Paperback]

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 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.IntroductionPart I: Rhythm1. Words, Sounds, Gestures2. Prosody, or the Secrets of Rhythm3. The Grid: A Life Principle4. The Metric Grid5. Coincidence: Intention and Gesture6. Rhythmic Solf?ge7. The Metronome and the Rubato8. Superbar Structures9. Opposing The Grid10. Patterning and SequencingPart II: Coordination11. Connection & Flow: First Principles12. The Juggler: A Cello Lesson13.l£7