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Integrated Practice
Coordination, Rhythm & Sound
Pedro de Alcantara
312 pages
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25 halftones, 10 line illus.; 100 music examples
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235x156mm
978-0-19-531708-4
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Paperback
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28 July 2011
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- New, comprehensive approach to musicians' health and well-being
- Combines total-body awareness with a deep and practical understanding of the rhythmic structure of the musical language
- Contains more than 100 exercises, many of which are original to this work
- Companion website features extensive library of audio and video clips
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.Readership: College-level music students and their professors; professional musicians in any stage of their careers; advanced young musicians; musicians who have health problems; music teachers in most settings
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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
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