Ebook: Integrated practice: coordination, rhythm & sound

Words, sounds, gestures -- Prosody, or The secrets of rhythm -- The grid : A life principle -- The metric grid -- Coincidence : Intention and gesture -- Rhythmic solfége -- The metronome and the rubato -- Superbar structures -- Opposing the grid -- Patterning and sequencing -- Connection and flow : First principles -- The juggler : A cello lesson -- Object wisdom : An oboe lesson -- Body, breath, vibration, text : A voice lesson -- The quadrupedal prosodist : A piano lesson -- The harmonic series -- The harmonic series and the voice -- The messa di voce : Virtuosity of contact -- Practicing the messa di voce -- Improvisation : A lifestyle.;To be a musician is to "speak music." When you have something to say and the means to say it, your gestures and sounds become both meaningful and free. Offering an innovative, comprehensive approach to musicians' health and wellbeing, Integrated Practice gives you the tools to combine total-body awareness with a deep and practical understanding of the rhythmic structure of the musical language, so that you can use the musical text itself as your guide toward psychophysical and creative freedom. The book shows you how to establish an imaginative dialogue between the relatively inflexible structure of music and your individual personality as a singer, instrumentalist, or conductor, and it explains how you can use the acoustic phenomenon of the harmonic series to make big, beautiful sounds with little muscular effort. Integrated Practice comes with more than a hundred and fifty exercises demonstrated by video and audio clips on an extensive companion website that will inform your daily practice, improvising, rehearsing, and performing. With this array of resources for every learning style, Integrated Practice is the essential handbook to personal achievement in successful, expressive musical performance [Publisher description].