Singing with Your Whole Self - Samuel H. Nelson, Elizabeth L. Blades

Singing with Your Whole Self

A Singer's Guide to Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement
Buch | Softcover
198 Seiten
2018 | Second Edition
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-0769-0 (ISBN)
46,10 inkl. MwSt
With new lessons and chapters on kinesthetic imagination and neuroplasticity, the second edition of this book reveals how the Feldenkrais Method of neuromuscular activities can be used to obtain optimal vocal performance. It features unique modularized lessons specifically designed for liberating function in singers and other voice professionals.
This book teaches performers to use the Feldenkrais Method of neuromuscular activities to ameliorate problems of tension, muscle strain, and illness in order to obtain optimal vocal performance. Singing with Your Whole Self, Second Edition contains an important and unique modularized Feldenkrais “Awareness Through Movement” lessons specifically designed for liberating function in all musicians, and singers in particular. Modularized lessons allow the user to choose between functionally useful short segments or entire lessons. The first part of the book presents the theory behind why this approach works in an easily understood and concrete fashion. The remaining chapters explore our anatomy by area and explain usage, problems, and how these relate to singing. These chapters include lessons that revolve around improving performance. Includes an index both by lesson and by problem, referring performers to the lessons most effective for a specific problem.

SAMUEL H. NELSON is a graduate of the Toronto Professional Feldenkrais Training Program (1987). He has offered Awareness Through Movement classes to the public since 1985. He held a seminar on the Feldenkrais Method each semester at the Eastman School of Music for many years and has presented seminars at music schools in Indiana, Ohio, and Virginia. Nelson also presented workshops for musicians at several area high schools, as well as for physical therapists and equestrians. He has a private practice in Rochester, New York. ELIZABETH BLADES holds both doctor of Musical Arts and masters of Music degrees from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. She is currently adjunct associate professor of Music at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. Previous appointments were at Heidelberg University (Tiffin, OH) where she served as associate professor of Music, coordinator of Vocal Studies and director of Opera; and as a visiting professor of Music at Nazareth College, Rochester, NY.

Chapter 1: Overview
Chapter 2: Kinesthetic Imagination
Chapter 3: Control and Letting Go
Chapter 4: Neuroplasticity
Chapter 5: Intentionality and Effort
Chapter 6: The Base of Support
Chapter 7: Pelvic Power
Chapter 8: Breathing
Chapter 9: Upper Trunk Flexibility
Chapter 10: Shoulder Girdle and Arms
Chapter 11: Head and Neck
Chapter 12: Hands and Mouth
Chapter 13: The Eyes
Chapter 14: Pedagogical Uses for This Volume
Appendix A: Functional Integration
Appendix B: The Effects of Feldenkrais Work on the Singer's Voice As Documented By Spectrographic Analysis
Appendix C

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 177 x 255 mm
Gewicht 395 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik
ISBN-10 1-5381-0769-4 / 1538107694
ISBN-13 978-1-5381-0769-0 / 9781538107690
Zustand Neuware
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