Singing with Your Whole Self

Name: Singing with Your Whole Self
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd
SKU: 9781538107690
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A Singer's Guide to Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement

By Elizabeth L. Blades and Samuel H. Nelson

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Singing with Your Whole Self is a comprehensive guide that uses the Feldenkrais Method of neuromuscular education to help singers overcome tension, muscle strain, and illness. The book combines theory and practical lessons focused on anatomical awareness to optimise vocal performance. The updated second edition introduces new modules on kinesthetic imagination and neuroplasticity, providing targeted exercises for voice professionals.
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Ideal for singers and voice professionals at all levels and styles seeking to improve their technique through body awareness and movement principles.

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.

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Singing with Your Whole Self: A Singer’s Guide to Awareness through Movement teaches performers to use the Feldenkrais Method of neuromuscular education to ameliorate problems of tension, muscle strain, and illness in order to obtain optimal vocal performance.

With new lessons and chapters on kinesthetic imagination and neuroplasticity, this second edition features unique, modularized Feldenkrais lessons designed specifically to liberate function in singers and other voice professionals.

The first part of the book presents the theory behind the approach in an easy-to-understand and concrete fashion. The remaining chapters explore anatomy by area and explain usage and problems, as well as how both relate to singing. Finally, an appendix allows performers to find lessons that are most effective for a specific problem.

As a valuable exercise guide, the second edition of Singing with Your Whole Self is an essential resource for singers at all levels and in all styles.

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The authors' expertise in both Feldenkrais and vocal performance shines through, making this book a hybrid textbook and exercise manual. Classical Singer Magazine praises the fusion of science and practice, while MaryBeth Davidson Smith commends the additional innovative lessons and the insightful chapter on neuroplasticity, calling it a valuable asset that modernises vocal pedagogy.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781538107690

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 April 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 38 b/w illustration

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 177.0mm

Height: 255.0mm

Weight: 395g

Pages: 198

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Arts & Culture Elizabeth L. Blades Non-Fiction Samuel H. Nelson

About the Author

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.