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1 online resource (354 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Spirited Wind Playing; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: SEVEN CORE ESSENTIALS; My "New World" History; Five Centuries of Wind Playing; The Seven Core Essentials; Part 1. ON THE AIR; 1 -- STAND TALL : POSTURE AND BALANCE; Posture: Rise Up from the Ground; The Foundation of Your Roots: Feet and Legs; Your Tree Trunk: Spine, Pelvic and Shoulder Girdles, Arms, Hands, and Fingers; Your Tree Top: Head, Neck, Eyes, and Ears; Playing On the Air and Pain Free; Solving Problems; Movement; Ready to Dance?; Mastery: Posture and Balance |
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2 -- THE CENTERED PERFORMANCEEliminating Distraction; Centering; Shiatsu and Dō-In: Aids in Centering and Breathing; Eyes and Ears: Our Portals; Energy Centers and the Chakras; The Nervous System; Mastery: Centered Performance; 3 -- BREATHING ON THE AIR; What Is in This Chapter?; Section 1. Where We Breathe: Breathing and Physiology; Mastery: Breathing On the Air-Where We Breathe; Section 2. Leave Them Breathless; Mastery: Breathing On the Air-Leave Them Breathless; Section 3. Moving Air and Energy; Section 4. Common Faults and Concerns; Mastery: Breathing On the Air-Common Faults and Concerns |
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Section 5. Advanced BreathingMastery: Breathing On the Air-Advanced Breathing; 4 -- MAGNETIC TONE PRODUCTION: HEAD AND BODY RESONANCE; Tone in the Eighteenth Century; Harmonics and Overtone Resonance; What Singers Have to Teach Us; Mastery: Magnetic Resonance; PART 2. SPIRITED WIND PLAYING; 5 -- EMBOUCHURE AND POWERFUL PROJECTION; The Four Facets of Embouchure; Mastering Embouchure; Mastery: Embouchure and Powerful Projection; 6 -- GET ON WITH IT! WARM-UP AND PRACTICE ROUTINE; Practicing for Spirited Winds; The Rule of Threes; Two Basic Skill Sets; What Type of Learner Are You? |
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Aspects of a Well-Rounded Practice RoutinePracticing for Success; Make a Practice Plan; Motivation; Mastery: Warm-Up and Practice; 7 -- DEFT ARTICULATION: AN INTEGRAL ART OF WIND PLAYING; Breathe into the Space between the Notes; Historical Perspectives; The Physical Position of Your Tongue and Throat; Focus the Tone Just under Your Nose above Your Top Lip; Consonants and Vowels; Contemporary Articulation; Mastery: Deft Articulation-Playfully Perfect Practice; 8 -- VIBRATO: THE GREAT DEBATE; Vibrato: When and Where?; Vibrato through History; What I Was Taught; Using Vibrato Today |
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Mastery: Vibrato9 -- VIRTUOSITY: DANCING FINGERS LEAD THE WAY; Finger Choices and Clear Leadership; NLT Patterns; Happy Hands Fly Free; Scale Practice: Walk and Fly; Lead with Your Instinct; Mastery: Virtuosity; Part 3. THE PERFORMANCE DIMENSION; 10 -- MEMORY MADE SIMPLE; What We Know about Memory; Where Is Your Memory?; How to Memorize; Memory in Performance; Fear: The Antifreedom State; Stress Leaves You Gasping for Air; 11 -- WINNING AUDITIONS; A Timeline for Preparing Excerpts; Scheduling Your Daily Practices for the Twelve Excerpts; Short-Term Preparation; Auditions Past and Present |
| Summary |
Peppered with tips, helpful hints, and personal anecdotes to illustrate real-life application, this performance guide is essential for any wind player interested in taking his or her virtuosity to the next level. Internationally renowned bassoonist Kim Walker has compiled into one book the teachings and exercises that have made her known as an expert on bassoon performance, practice, and instruction. From basics like posture, breathing techniques, and articulation to a survey of the performance practices of key woodwind and brass masters, Walker includes an analysis of each technique along with images and exercises that present the mechanics of each method |
| Notes |
Preparing for a Specific Audition |
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Wind instruments -- Instruction and study
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Music -- Performance -- Physiological aspects
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Music -- Performance -- Psychological aspects
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- General.
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Music -- Performance -- Physiological aspects
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Music -- Performance -- Psychological aspects
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Wind instruments -- Instruction and study
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schoenbach, Peter J
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| ISBN |
9780253024992 |
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0253024994 |
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