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The Integrated String Player

Author : Pedro de Alcantara
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190860782
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Integrated String Player written by Pedro de Alcantara and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedro de Alcantara's The Integrated String Player: Embodied Vibration is a practical guide for all string players: violinists and violists, cellists and bassists, but also gamba players and anyone who makes music drawing a bow across a string. Dozens of exercises, supported by a dedicated website with 80 video clips, cover all the basics of string playing, including left-hand articulation, vibrato, changes of position, double-stopping, sound production, string crossings, and many other techniques. Each exercise, however simple or complex, can become a meditation with the goal of integrating the musical, technical, and metaphysical aspects of a player's practice. Part I is devoted to the fundamentals of coordination, rhythm, and listening in depth. Part II focuses on the left hand, with an emphasis on healthy gestures that are charged with musicality and meaning. Part III covers the bowing arm, exploring innovative concepts such as expressive gesticulation, mechanical intelligence, and the use of the bow as the player's voice, both literally and symbolically. Part IV covers the integration of analytical thought and sensorial practice, providing an extensive study of the harmonic series, the circle of fifths, Tartini tones, and many other sonic aspects that are essential to a string player's musical freedom. In addition, the conversational, linguistic, compositional, and improvisatory dimensions of string playing are discussed and supported by multiple practical exercises. The Integrated String Player is addressed to players of all abilities and from all aesthetic backgrounds: students and professionals, teachers and performers, classically trained musicians and jazz players, chamber-music players and orchestral players.

The Integrated String Player

Author : Pedro de Alcantara
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199899312
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Integrated String Player written by Pedro de Alcantara and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedro de Alcantara's The Integrated String Player: Embodied Vibration is a practical guide for all string players: violinists and violists, cellists and bassists, but also gamba players and anyone who makes music drawing a bow across a string. Dozens of exercises, supported by a dedicated website with 80 video clips, cover all the basics of string playing, including left-hand articulation, vibrato, changes of position, double-stopping, sound production, string crossings, and many other techniques. Each exercise, however simple or complex, can become a meditation with the goal of integrating the musical, technical, and metaphysical aspects of a player's practice. Part I is devoted to the fundamentals of coordination, rhythm, and listening in depth. Part II focuses on the left hand, with an emphasis on healthy gestures that are charged with musicality and meaning. Part III covers the bowing arm, exploring innovative concepts such as expressive gesticulation, mechanical intelligence, and the use of the bow as the player's voice, both literally and symbolically. Part IV covers the integration of analytical thought and sensorial practice, providing an extensive study of the harmonic series, the circle of fifths, Tartini tones, and many other sonic aspects that are essential to a string player's musical freedom. In addition, the conversational, linguistic, compositional, and improvisatory dimensions of string playing are discussed and supported by multiple practical exercises. The Integrated String Player is addressed to players of all abilities and from all aesthetic backgrounds: students and professionals, teachers and performers, classically trained musicians and jazz players, chamber-music players and orchestral players.

Integrated Practice

Author : Pedro de Alcantara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195317076
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Integrated Practice written by Pedro de Alcantara and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 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 Practice comes 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 Practice is the essential handbook to personal achievement in successful, expressive musical performance.

Indirect Procedures

Author : Pedro de Alcantara
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199874824
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Indirect Procedures written by Pedro de Alcantara and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Befiddled

Author : Pedro de Alcantara
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0307514056
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Befiddled written by Pedro de Alcantara and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2009-05-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becky Cohen has a rough life. She’s an outsider everywhere she goes: shunned and mocked at school, at her violin lessons, and at home by her disapproving mother. Her only true friend is her brilliant little brother, newspaper-loving Benjy. She dreams of becoming a great violinist, but at the group lessons she’s forced to take at the Y, Becky panics and plays badly. Then Becky meets Mr. Freeman, her building’s handyman. He has a lot to teach her about becoming a musician, and being a friend. Gradually, Becky begins speaking her mind more often, and finds that people are actually listening. Then Mr. Freeman tells Becky about a local performing arts high school’s scholarship contest. With the lessons learned from Mr. Freeman and Benjy, can Becky overcome her fears and play what’s in her heart?

Backtracked

Author : Pedro De Alcantara
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
ISBN 13 : 0440239907
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Backtracked written by Pedro De Alcantara and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2010 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While playing a dangerous subway prank, a fifteen-year-old slacker falls through a time-travel vortex and is transported to different time periods in twentieth-century New York City, where he learns firsthand about hardship.

String Players' Guide to the Orchestra

Author : Susan C. Brown
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457429255
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book String Players' Guide to the Orchestra written by Susan C. Brown and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The String Player’s Guide to the Orchestra includes orchestral repertoire, excerpts, scales and studies for string orchestra as well as individual study. The works may be played individually or in ensembles and the music selections work within a wide range of student ability levels. The book focuses on phrasing, technique and musical styles and provides a unique entry into performance music preparation with right- and left-hand studies using authentic orchestral excerpts.

The Direct String Player

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Direct String Player written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Strategies for Teaching Strings

Author : Donald L. Hamann
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190643850
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Strategies for Teaching Strings by : Donald L. Hamann

Download or read book Strategies for Teaching Strings written by Donald L. Hamann and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategies for Teaching Strings: Building a Successful String and Orchestra Program, Fourth Edition, is an essential guide for prospective, novice, and experienced string teachers alike. This comprehensive text provides all the information necessary to develop and manage a successful school-based program. Based on the national standards for teaching strings and orchestra, the text covers performance objectives, strategies for teaching technical and performance skills, and solutions to common playing problems for elementary, middle, and high school skill levels. It also offers rehearsal strategies to develop large-group ensemble techniques, practical approaches to teaching improvisation, and advice on how to increase student recruitment and retention.

Teaching Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass

Author : Dijana Ihas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000970507
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass written by Dijana Ihas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass summarizes three centuries of string pedagogy treatises to create a comprehensive resource on methods and approaches to teaching all four bowed string instruments. Co-written by three performance and pedagogy experts, each specializing in different string instruments, this book is applicable to all levels of instruction. Essays on historical pedagogues are clearly structured to allow for easy comprehension of their philosophies, pedagogical practices, and unique contributions. This book concludes with a section on application through comparative analysis of the historical methods and approaches. With coverage from the eighteenth century to the present, this book will be invaluable for teachers and students of string pedagogy and general readers who wish to learn more about string pedagogy’s rich history, diverse content, and modern developments.

The Alexander Technique

Author : Pedro de Alcantara
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 1785008390
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Alexander Technique written by Pedro de Alcantara and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Art of Sensuality and it's Impact on Great String Playing

Author : Alan de Veritch
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 149186060X
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Sensuality and it's Impact on Great String Playing written by Alan de Veritch and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major frustrations of my professional musical life has been the continual reminder of how few talented young string players, even those with exceptional instrumental skill, seem to truly understand the importance of reflecting their very own personal emotional experiences within the fabric of their musical interpretations and performances. Consequently I have devoted a great deal of my teaching efforts to helping these potential artists better understand the critical importance of this element and to develop the skills necessary to facilitate the natural merging of their inner-most emotions with their instrumental facility. My original purpose for authoring this book was to create a lasting way in which to share my resulting theories and methodologies with regards to this ever so critical ingredient to the process of successful musical communication. Interestingly, after a reasonable amount of academic research, it quickly became apparent to me that in spite of the existence of numerous available publications dealing with the need for musicians to play their instruments in an expressive manner... and a myriad of additional books and articles attempting to describe and analyze the elements of "sensuality" ...no one had previously made any detailed connection or addressed, in writing, the impact of "sensuality" on music performance from either a technical or musical perspective. Now that this project is complete I must agree with the opinion of a number of my trusted colleagues and friends: "many theories, concepts and methods described in this book could indeed provide benefits to a far broader audience than those exclusively focused on string playing."I am hopeful that performers from all of the arts as well as any interested and receptive individuals from all walks of life may find the thoughts I have expressed in this publication helpful in achieving the lives of their dreams.

Arranging for Strings

Author : Mimi Rabson
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1540025527
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Arranging for Strings written by Mimi Rabson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Berklee Guide). Learn to use strings in your compositions and arrangements! From romantic chord pads to powerful grooves to gut-wrenching passionate melodies, strings do it all. This book presents time-tested techniques and contemporary developments in writing and arranging for strings. You'll learn strategies for authentic writing in many different styles and find ideas to take your personal sound forward. Discover voicings that work best for each project and explore the intricacies of bowing. Hear articulation approaches from pads to chopping in the online audio examples. See how other composers have used strings to heighten the impact of their music in the written examples. Make your work stand out with the drama and depth that well informed string writing can bring. You will learn: * The tunings, range, and timbres for the violin, viola, cello, and bass, including standard instruments and common variations, including acoustic, electric, and synthesized string instruments and sections * Bowing techniques and possibilities * Characteristic articulations and sounds, such as vibrato, pizzicato, sul tasto, trills, tremolos, and harmonics * Timbral and rhythm effects, such as chop technique, ponticello/feedback, portamento, and falls * String-section arranging techniques, such as melody/countermelody, fills, pads, and comping * Stylistic nuances of genres such as American roots, Celtic, jazz, rock, klezmer, eastern European, Gypsy jazz, and swing * Mic, recording, and live sound techniques for capturing the best string sounds for both acoustic and electric instruments

String Players' Guide to the Orchestra

Author : Susan C. Brown
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780739051962
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book String Players' Guide to the Orchestra written by Susan C. Brown and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The String Player's Guide to the Orchestra includes orchestral repertoire, excerpts, scales, and studies for string orchestra as well as individual study. The works may be played individually or in ensembles, and the music selections work within a wide range of student ability levels. The book focuses on phrasing, technique, and musical styles and provides a unique entry into performance music preparation with right- and left-hand studies using authentic orchestral excerpts.

Aural Awareness

Author : George Pratt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198790211
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Aural Awareness written by George Pratt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional aural training is heavily biased towards the perception and identification of pitch and rhythm. This book argues that much of this area of the subject can best be worked on alone. It demonstrates how every student can make some encouraging progress in these aspects of music.

Tunes and Exercises for the String Player

Author : Paul Rolland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Tunes and Exercises for the String Player written by Paul Rolland and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stringtastic Book 1: Double Bass

Author : Mark Wilson
Publisher : Stringtastic
ISBN 13 : 9780571542581
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Stringtastic Book 1: Double Bass written by Mark Wilson and published by Stringtastic. This book was released on 2022-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stringtastic Book 1: Double Bass teaches through playing in an engaging exploration of musical styles. Part of the fully integrated Stringtastic series in which violin, viola, cello and double bass can all learn and play together in any combination. Learn as you play through the world of Stringtastic, with 57 imaginative pieces that have been specifically designed to establish a secure playing technique and build confidence one step at a time. Following on from Stringtastic Beginners, this book takes the student from playing the notes of the D major scale to Grade 1 (Early Elementary). Featuring equal-level duets for all instruments, the pieces are ideal for individual and group instruction as well as flexible ensemble and classroom settings. Every piece is supported by an exciting backing track plus a piano-only track for practice, all available to download. The Stringtastic Book 1: Teacher's Accompaniment book provides the complete piano score which works with any combination of the instrumental parts.