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Author Jordan, James

Title The Musician's Trust
Published Chicago : Gia Publications, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (151 pages)
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Prologue: Writing from Two Sides; Prologue: Connection and Trust; Preface; Introduction: James Jordan; Introduction: James Whitbourn; Part One: Philosophical Necessities; Chapter 1: James Jordan -- The Beginning; The Event; Chapter 2: James Whitbourn -- A Musician's Understanding of Trust; Chapter 3: James Jordan -- The work Before the Work; Wearing the Disguise of Technique; The Woodcarver from Thomas Merton; Chapter 4: James Jordan -- Finding a Deeper Meaning: Growing Downward, Deepening First
Chapter 5: James Jordan -- Trust as an Internal Mechanism: Trust and Truth as Synonyms?Inner Meaning? A Vanishing Art?; Chapter 6: James Jordan -- The Foundation of Trust: Humility and Artistic Voice; A Phone Call; The Sheehan Essay Revisited: Becoming Musicalized; Chapter 7: James Jordan -- What Does Trust Sound Like?; Qualities of the Sound Beneath the Surface; Chapter 8: James Jordan -- The Silence Between Phrases: Exploring a Re-Languaged Rehearsal; Chapter 9: James Jordan -- Non-Verbal Embodying of Mistrust; Unconscious Mistrust; How Gesture Reflects Shadow Movement; The Rebound
Weight Can Reflect an Inherent and Deep-Seated MistrustBreath Carries Opinion; The Space Between Phrases; Part Two: Preparing for Performance; Chapter 10: James Whitbourn -- Trusting the Composer; Chapter 11: James Whitbourn -- Trusting Your Own Judgment; Chapter 12: James Whitbourn -- Trusting the Conductor; Part Three: In Performance; Chapter 13: James Whitbourn -- Trusting Your Own Technique; Chapter 14: James Whitbourn -- Trusting Each Other; Chapter 15: James Whitbourn -- Trusting the Audience; Chapter 16: James Whitbourn -- The Conductor's Trust of the Musicians
Part Four: The Importance of the SelfChapter 17: James Jordan -- It Is About Giving; Giving Through a Certain Stillness; Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale: The Way of Beauty and Stillness Essay by Donald Sheehan; Chapter 18: James Jordan -- The Empowerment of Self: Community Deeply Embedded Within Ensemble; The Singing City Experience; The Excavation: A Many-Faceted Journey; The Communicative Trusting "Glance"-A Certain Dignity; Chapter 19: James Jordan -- Toward an Understanding of Mutuality: Avoiding Mismeeting
Understanding Meeting and the Depth of True Mutuality: The Essence of Teaching and RehearsingEpilogue: James Whitbourn; Bibliography; About the Authors
Summary Most musicians unwittingly experience the defining effects of trust and distrust in their music making. In The Musician's Trust, musical collaborators James Jordan and James Whitbourn bring the importance of trust center stage and explore the many facets of this mysterious quality, both for individuals and ensembles. Drawing from their own experiences as conductors, composers, producers, and teachers, The Musician's Trust is a compelling addition to the best-selling series that started with Jordan's The Musician's Soul and continues with The Musician's Spirit, The Musician's Walk, Toward
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Subject Trust.
Musicians -- Religious life
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Confidence.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Confidence
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
Trust
Form Electronic book
Author Whitbourn, James
ISBN 9781622770083
1622770080
9781622770076
1622770072