Body Mapping for Flutists

Body Mapping for Flutists
Author: Lea Pearson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Flute
ISBN: 9781579995003

Flutists all over suffer from sore backs, neck aches, hand problems and inadequate breathing. Now there is a book that can help determine the causes of these problems and offer practical, easy-to-understand solutions. Body Mapping for Flutists contains information about the body that can help you prevent pain and injury and enhance performance. Ensuring that your map of your body is accurate and adequate is one of the most efficient and effective tools you have to improve and enhance your ability to play, perform, and teach an instrument. This handbook is designed to help you and your students discover that process. Body Mapping for Flutists: What Every Flute Teacher Needs to Know About the Body discusses: Balance in standing and sitting, How to use arms to prevent injury, Free and supported breathing, Anatomical information on how the body works, Training the kinesthetic sense, The importance of movement for musicians, Practical exercises for students and teachers. - Publisher.

Mastering the Flute with William Bennett

Mastering the Flute with William Bennett
Author: Roderick Seed
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2018-01-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253035406

For the first time the exercises and teaching methods of world-renowned flutist William Bennett are featured in one workbook. After more than a decade of study with Bennett and many of his students, Roderick Seed has documented the tools that have made Bennett known for his ability to give the flute the depth, dignity, and grandeur of the voice or the stringed instrument. Topics range from how to overcome basic technical difficulties, such as pitch control, to the tools for phrasing, prosody, tone, and intonation needed for playing with different dynamics and ranges of expression. Advanced musicians will find useful exercises and techniques in this book that will deepen their knowledge and enjoyment of making music and help them in their quest to master the flute.

The Flute Book

The Flute Book
Author: Nancy Toff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 559
Release: 2012-09-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0195373081

The instrument -- Performance -- The music -- Repertoire catalog -- Fingering chart for the Boehm flute -- Flute manufacturers -- Repair shops -- Sources for instruments and accessories -- Sources for music and books -- Journals, societies, and service organizations -- Flute clubs and societies.

What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body

What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body
Author: Barbara Conable
Publisher: Andover Press (OR)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Alexander technique
ISBN: 9780962259562

"The practical application of Body Mapping and the Alexander Technique to making music. Body Mapping is the study of how our concepts of our bodies affect our experience and movement. The Alexander Technique is a method for improving freedom and ease of movement and physical coordination. This book is a graphic presentation of ideas drawn from these two disciplines that is of great benefit to music students and teachers and others." --Publsiher's description.

The Structures and Movement of Breathing

The Structures and Movement of Breathing
Author: Barbara Conable
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Choral singing
ISBN: 9781579990992

"This enlightening handbook is designed to provide choir members clear and concise information about their breathing so that they may sing with optimal enjoyment and beauty. Featuring dozens of detailed illustrations and explanations, this book is a crucial tool to anyone on a quest for phenomenal sound. Crucial to this quest is understanding how our own bodies work to produce sound through a technique known as Body Mapping. This handbook is perfect for use during choir warm-ups and rehearsals." -- Back cover.

Oboemotions

Oboemotions
Author: Stephen Caplan
Publisher: GIA Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Alexander technique
ISBN: 9781579997274

"Purpose is to place the musical and technical study of the oboe within the context of a precise understanding of the human body" --Foreward.

Teaching Woodwinds

Teaching Woodwinds
Author: Kelly Mollnow Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2014-09-13
Genre: Woodwind instruments
ISBN: 9781935510710

Teaching Woodwinds: A Guide for Students and Teachers is a comprehensive resource perfectly suited for university woodwind technique classes, band directors needing woodwind details, or anyone looking for in-depth information on how to play flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, or saxophone. Teaching Woodwinds is the only resource of its kind: a book and a website. The book contains playing exercises for each instrument, group exercises in score form, and fingering and trill charts. The website contains information about how to play each instrument including sub-chapters on getting started, technique, intonation, tone and much more, and offers over 300 full color images, 130 videos, audio files, PDF downloads, PowerPoint/Keynote quizzes, and hundreds of links. Designed to be a lifelong resource, the platform of a book and website has provided the authors with a rich palette with which to deliver the content with clarity and precision. This format serves as an effective woodwind methods curriculum, and will continue to be a valuable resource for music educators long after graduation.