What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body: The Practical Application of Body Mapping & the Alexander Technique to Making Music

Conable, Barbara, Conable, Benjamin

ISBN 10: 0962259551 / ISBN 13: 9780962259555

Published by GIA Publications, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body: The Practical Application of Body Mapping & the Alexander Technique to Making Music
• Publisher: GIA Publications
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962259551
• ISBN 13: 9780962259555
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Barbara Conable is an Alexander teacher of 23 years experience and a teaching member of the North American Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique and Alexander Technique International. She has taught at the Ohio State University and the Cincinnati Conservatory and is now President of Andover Educators. She is an active poet and the author and editor of several books about the Alexander Technique.