Alexandra Pierce singles out elements of music such as melody, meter, and phrase, and investigates the defining quality of each through movement. Although simple, these exercises engage the listening attention in complex ways and can be integrated into a musician’s daily practice. Practicing movements that accurately reflect a musical element can improve technique and are audible in performance. They become part of your technical command. Short narratives that illustrate how performance practice problems can be approached and solved are scattered throughout the book. A video companion to Deepening Musical Performance through Movement can be found at the author’s website, alexandrapierce.net/deepening.
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Applying gesture to explore performance, therapeutic, and compositional practices
Introduction1. Vitalizing the Musical Elements, One by One2. Mobilizing Balance3. Melody Awakened: Seven Stages for Embodying Its Contour4. Resilience of Meter and Rhythm5. The Integration of Structural Levels 6. Shaping Phrase with Span and Climax7. Letting Gesture Through: Reverberation 8. The Movements of Juncture9. Characterizing10. Tone of Voice11. The Spirit of Play NotesBibliographyIndex
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"From this [book]... we receive these two gifts... a compostional repertoire distinct in imaginative focus and a pedagogy with wide application to music making and full of implications for research." —The Open Space Magazine
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Applying gesture to explore performance, therapeutic, and compositional practices

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780253222237
Publisert
2010-02-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Indiana University Press
Vekt
422 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
248

Forfatter

Biographical note

Alexandra Pierce is Professor of Music and Movement, Emerita Research Professor at the University of Redlands, California. She is author (with Roger Pierce) of Expressive Movement: Posture and Action in Daily Life, Sports, and the Performing Arts.