The Alexander Technique for Musicians

2013-11-21
The Alexander Technique for Musicians

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  • Author: Judith Kleinman
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 1408176831
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 390

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

2013-06-17
Indirect Procedures

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  • Author: Pedro de Alcantara
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199874824
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352

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

2011
Voice and the Alexander Technique

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  • Author: Jane Ruby Heirich
  • Publisher: Books that Change
  • ISBN: 9780964435292
  • Category : Alexander technique
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 174

The Alexander Technique For Actors

2016-01-14
The Alexander Technique For Actors

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  • Author: Kelly McEvenue
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1474279120
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 176

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.

How to Learn the Alexander Technique

1995
How to Learn the Alexander Technique

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  • Author: Barbara Conable
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781622775668
  • Category : Alexander technique
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 168

Integrative Alexander Technique Practice for Performing Artists

2014
Integrative Alexander Technique Practice for Performing Artists

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  • Author: Cathy Madden
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781783202195
  • Category : MEDICAL
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 404

"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.

Dance and the Alexander Technique

2011
Dance and the Alexander Technique

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  • Author: Rebecca Nettl-Fiol
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • ISBN: 0252077938
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 218

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 Resource Book

2008-12-24
The Alexander Technique Resource Book

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  • Author: John B. Harer
  • Publisher: Scarecrow Press
  • ISBN: 0810863928
  • Category : Health & Fitness
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 192

The Alexander Technique is a hands-on educational method that helps individuals learn how to eliminate tension in the body caused by habitual limitations in the way they move and think. The health benefits of the Alexander Technique are both physical and emotional. It improves balance, posture, and stamina, and has been shown to improve cognitive functions. And it was practiced and endorsed by renowned philosopher and educator John Dewey. The Alexander Technique Resource Book provides guidance and information that aids in studying the technique and locating sources for further research in the field. It contains information on print, audio, video, and web-based resources, and includes a description of the basic principles and benefits of the Alexander Technique. This book benefits students, scholars, and researchers, as well as musicians, actors, and athletes looking to enhance performance in physical activities. It is a helpful resource for anyone seeking information on alternative and complementary medicines like the Alexander Technique.

The Use Of The Self

2019-04-30
The Use Of The Self

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  • Author: F.M. Alexander
  • Publisher: Spring
  • ISBN: 9781409182955
  • Category : Health & Fitness
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

The world famous classic by the originator of the Alexander Technique, with a new perspective by Anthony Kingsley. Frederick Matthias Alexander was born in Tasmania in 1869. In his twenties, he became a professional reciter of dramatic pieces. After almost completely losing his voice he pioneered a method of improving the 'use' of his body musculature in all positions and movements and cured his vocal problems without medical aid. Alexander then realised that most people stood, sat and moved in a defective manner and that incorrect 'use of the self' might be the cause of much human suffering. He moved to London and established a school, publishing several books and achieving success, with recommendations from famous contemporaries such as Aldous Huxley and Sir Stafford Cripps. Alexander died in 1955 but his 'principle' lives on through the work of many teachers of his method.

The Alexander Technique

2021-04-26
The Alexander Technique

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  • Author: Pedro de Alcantara
  • Publisher: The Crowood Press
  • ISBN: 1785008390
  • Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 277

To live is to face problems and to find solutions for them. We do so consciously or unconsciously, using intuition, reason, imagination and many other faculties. We notice a situation, we draw conclusions from what we see, hear and feel, and we act on our conclusions in a constant process of observation, analysis and remedy. 'My shoulders are tight, because I am under a lot of stress, I need a good massage.' We observe a problem (tight shoulders), analyse the cause (stress) and seek a remedy for it (the massage). But what if we have misunderstood the problem? What if our description of the problem is based on false perceptions, or our analysis on false assumptions? What if the solution aggravates the problem? This book is about our suppositions, habits and behaviours. It is about posture and attitude, tension and relaxation, movement and rest. It is about interpersonal relationships, sports and performing arts. Above all, it is about embodied emotions and the body that thinks and feels. In this fully revised new edition, Pedro de Alcantara invites you to redefine the meaning of health and wellbeing, using the insights and tools developed by a man of genius: F.M Alexander.