Teaching the Whole Musician

Teaching the Whole Musician
Author: Paola Savvidou
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2021
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190868791
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"This book offers applied music instructors a practical guide for supporting their students' wellness by integrating holistic techniques into their pedagogy. The main argument in this book is that the mentorship dynamic within the applied studio situates the pedagogue in a unique position to guide and mentor their students towards a healthy and satisfying artistic life. Wellness, as a relatively new dimension within health education for musicians, can be intimidating for applied instructors. Many teachers lack the training and confidence to enter conversations in this arena. Grounded in recent research, coupled with extensive in-person interviews with students, faculty and healthcare professionals, this book demystifies the causes, challenges, and limiting factors around maintaining a healthy artistic practice, while revealing practical solutions for achieving and maintaining wellness as a performing artist. Each chapter includes a toolkit of practical exercises and activities that can be easily integrated within the applied lesson. Topics covered include injury-prevention, alignment and the breathing mechanism, mental health, contemplative practices, Laban Movement Analysis, nutrition, and sleep"--

The Whole Musician

The Whole Musician
Author: Susan Bruckner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-07-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781490546094
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"The Whole Musician is an ambitious and highly creative project. This practical guide bridges the gap between the theoretical and 'real' world of teaching. Susan's work allows the reader to turn everyday problems into success stories."- Michael Grinder, National Director of Education for NLPIf you are a musician reading this book, you will probably find something of yourself here. If you are an educator, a music director, a conductor, or any title that causes you to interact with musicians, either amateur or professional, you will find somebody you know in this book, maybe even yourself. Just take a moment to think back over your own years of training. As your training progressed, did you have any difficulties? Or are you the person I've been seeking who had the perfect musician's life, born with gifts in full bloom, no unseen obstacles, adored and recognized, fulfilled...?Most of us will respond to the pondering by dragging up something not so nice, or maybe even awful. It isn't because your teachers were uncaring.It is just that teachers teach what they know, and for the most part teachers teach in their own learning style. As students become performers, they practice what they know, and for the most part they practice what they learned. If that sometimes turns out to be inadequate, where do they go for help? For example, do you know how to recognize and adapt to different learning styles? What happens when your natural skill at connecting to a student is frustrated, no matter how you try? What tools do you use to enhance your student's ability to generate peak performance skills whenever they need to? What if you had a sure-fire process for helping a student/performer to relinquish a death-grip on a painful performing experience?You can find solutions and meaning in The Whole Musician

The Music Teacher

The Music Teacher
Author: Barbara Hall
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2009-02-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1565126726
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In The Music Teacher, a penetrating and richly entertaining look into the heart and mind of a woman who has failed both as an artist and as a wife, Barbara Hall, award-winning creator and writer of such hit television series as Judging Amy and Joan of Arcadia, tells the story of a violinist who has accepted the limitations of her talent and looks for the casual satisfaction of trying to instill her passion for music in others. She gets more than she bargains for, however, when a young girl named Hallie enters her life. For here at last is the real thing: someone with the talent and potential to be truly great. In her drive to shape this young girl into the artist the teacher could never be, she makes one terrible mistake. As a result she is forced to reevaluate her whole life and come to terms with her future. Hall has crafted a thoroughly engrossing novel that examines the pitfalls of failure and holds up a mirror to the face of a culture that places success and achievement above all else.

Whole Notes

Whole Notes
Author: Ed Ayres
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 146071279X
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Life Lessons through Music Shortlisted for The Age Non-fiction Book of the Year; People's Choice, Queensland Books of the Year; Booksellers' Choice Non-fiction Book of the Year. How can we pause long enough to repair ourselves? How can we make space and time in our lives to know ourselves? One way is through music - learning music, listening to music, being open to music. Because music consoles and restores us. Through music, whether we are listening or playing, we know ourselves more intimately, more honestly, and more clearly with every note. And with every note, music offers us a hand to the beyond. Through music, we can say what we didn't even know we felt. This book is an ode to music, and a celebration of humanity's greatest creation. It is not a call to arms, but a call to instruments. In music, Ed Ayres finds answers to the big questions life throws at us. Using personal anecdotes - including those relating to his transition from Emma to Ed - and observations from teaching and learning music, Ed finds hope in our desire to become whole, with some simple music lessons along the way. PRAISE 'Whole Notes may appear to be about music, but really, it's simply about how to be kind and how to listen without judgement. Which is the best definition of love, no?' Jessie Tu, Sydney Morning Herald 'A truly beguiling account' Geraldine Doogue 'An almost divine presence' Rick Morton 'This is a gorgeous read. It is entertaining and educating in equal measure, and will leave its readers inspired' Celia Cobb, The Strad 'Don't miss this book - it is an ode to music, by a truly inspirational teacher' Inge Southcott, Loud Mouth, Music Trust e-zine 'Ayres communicates with joy, and clarity, inviting us to walk the journey of life with openness to others' Bishop Ian Palmer, The Melbourne Anglican 'With his collection of essayistic reflections on the beauty of music and what the process of learning it can teach us about life, Ayres has gifted his reader with something truly generous and utterly joyful' Stella Charls, Readings

Making Music in the Primary School

Making Music in the Primary School
Author: Nick Beach
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2010-12-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136850422
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An essential guide for teaching and learning music with the whole class. It provides a framework for successful musical experiences with large groups of children and is illustrated throughout with carefully designed activities to try out in the classroom. The guidance in this book will help you support and develop children’s musical experience,

The Music Lesson

The Music Lesson
Author: Victor L. Wooten
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2008-04-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1440637695
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From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes an inspiring parable of music, life, and the difference between playing all the right notes…and feeling them. The Music Lesson is the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived. Part musical genius, part philosopher, part eccentric wise man, the teacher would guide the young musician on a spiritual journey, and teach him that the gifts we get from music mirror those from life, and every movement, phrase, and chord has its own meaning...All you have to do is find the song inside. “The best book on music (and its connection to the mystic laws of life) that I've ever read. I learned so much on every level.”—Multiple Grammy Award–winning saxophonist Michael Brecker

The Musician's Mind

The Musician's Mind
Author: Lynn Helding
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2020-02-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1538109964
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Where does learning begin and how is it sustained and stored in the brain? For musicians, these questions are at the very core of their creative lives. Cognitive and neuroscience have flung wide the doors of our understanding, but bridging the gap between research data and music-making requires a unique immersion in both worlds. Lynn Helding presents a symphony of discoveries that illuminate how musicians can optimize their mental wellbeing and cognitive abilities. She addresses common brain myths, motor learning research and the concept of deliberate practice, the values of instructional feedback, technology’s role in attention disorders, the challenges of parenting young musicians, performance anxiety and its solutions, and the emerging importance of music as a social justice issue. More than an exploration of the brain, The Musician’s Mind is an inspiring call for artists to promote the cultivation of emotion and empathy as cornerstones of a civilized society. No matter your instrument or level of musical ability, this book will reveal to you a new dynamic appreciation for the mind’s creative power.

The Ways Children Learn Music

The Ways Children Learn Music
Author: Eric Bluestine
Publisher: GIA Publications
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781579991081
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How do children learn music? And how can music teachers help children to become independent and self-sufficient musical thinkers? Author Eric Bluestine sheds light on these issues in music education.

Whole Music

Whole Music
Author: Lois Blackburn
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN:
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Whole Musicoffers a fervent message to elementary teachers - that music can be integrated into their classrooms and that it can be done applying the principles of whole language. Music is fertile ground for creating classroom activities based on the individual whole child, home, community, and other environmental and cultural influences. And music is best explored using the child's whole body rather than just eyes, ears, and writing hand. Blackburn writes this book from a unique position as a musician with a profound interest in the psycholinguistics of reading. Her goal is to propose whole music as an instrument to transform music instruction in the way that whole language has transformed other subject areas. Along with descriptions of whole music, her book includes examples and practical activities. Many books have been designed as compendiums of activities and exhaustive collections of children's songs and games. Whole Music, instead, introduces a point of view. The illustrative materials are intended as examples of the whole music process: patterns from which teachers may in turn create their own songs and activities. There is something in this book to guide nearly every teacher in exploring music at some level and in some context. For regular classroom teachers, these adventures may be used as focused lessons, as enrichment for other subject area units or as "fillers" for the nightmare times when the lesson plan runs out. For music educators, the materials may be used individually to examine specific skills or as a complete developmental sequence and curriculum outline, in the order presented in the text.

The Teaching of Instrumental Music

The Teaching of Instrumental Music
Author: Richard Colwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2015-08-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317350847
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This book introduces music education majors to basic instrumental pedagogy for the instruments and ensembles most commonly found in the elementary and secondary curricula. This text focuses on the core competencies required for teacher certification in instrumental music. The first section of the book focuses on essential issues for a successful instrumental program: objectives, assessment and evaluation, motivation, administrative tasks, and recruiting and scheduling (including block scheduling). The second section devotes a chapter to each wind instrument plus percussion and strings, and includes troubleshooting checklists for each instrument. The third section focuses on rehearsal techniques from the first day through high school.