Integrated String Player

Informationen zum Autor Pedro de Alcantara is a musician, writer, and teacher, leading workshops worldwide on the Alexander Technique. His books include Integrated Practice: Coordination, Rhythm & Sound and Indirect Procedures: A Musician's Guide to the Alexander Technique. He lives in Paris and is Visiting Professor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Klappentext The Integrated String Player offers practical tools for improving coordination, technique, daily practice, interpretation, and concert preparation. With dozens of exercises demonstrated in 80 video clips, the book and its dedicated website can help musicians of all skill levels achieve technical and creative freedom. Zusammenfassung Pedro de Alcantara's The Integrated String Player: Embodied Vibration is a practical guide for all string players: violinists and violists, cellists and bassists, but also gamba players and anyone who makes music drawing a bow across a string. Dozens of exercises, supported by a dedicated website with 80 video clips, cover all the basics of string playing, including left-hand articulation, vibrato, changes of position, double-stopping, sound production, string crossings, and many other techniques. Each exercise, however simple or complex, can become a meditation with the goal of integrating the musical, technical, and metaphysical aspects of a player's practice.Part I is devoted to the fundamentals of coordination, rhythm, and listening in depth. Part II focuses on the left hand, with an emphasis on healthy gestures that are charged with musicality and meaning. Part III covers the bowing arm, exploring innovative concepts such as expressive gesticulation, mechanical intelligence, and the use of the bow as the player's voice, both literally and symbolically. Part IV covers the integration of analytical thought and sensorial practice, providing an extensive study of the harmonic series, the circle of fifths, Tartini tones, and many other sonic aspects that are essential to a string player's musical freedom. In addition, the conversational, linguistic, compositional, and improvisatory dimensions of string playing are discussed and supported by multiple practical exercises.The Integrated String Player is addressed to players of all abilities and from all aesthetic backgrounds: students and professionals, teachers and performers, classically trained musicians and jazz players, chamber-music players and orchestral players. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents The Integrated Musician: A Book Series A Companion Website Introduction Part I: Coordination, Rhythm and Sound 1. Before Everything Else 2. Coordination 3. Rhythm 4. Listening Part II: The Right Side 5. The Bow: Object and Gesture 6. Strings, Drones, Clefs 7. Vowels and Consonants 8. Smart Makes Easy Part III: The Left Side 9. The Left Hand 10. Changes of Position 11. On Vibrato 12. The Art of Fingering Part IV: Integration 13. The Harmonic Series 14. Practicing Theory 15. The Conversational Approach 16. Integration Conclusion Appendix: Further Study Notes Bibliography ...

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Pedro de Alcantara is a musician, writer, and teacher, leading workshops worldwide on the Alexander Technique. His books include Integrated Practice: Coordination, Rhythm & Sound and Indirect Procedures: A Musician's Guide to the Alexander Technique. He lives in Paris and is Visiting Professor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

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The Integrated String Player offers practical tools for improving coordination, technique, daily practice, interpretation, and concert preparation. With dozens of exercises demonstrated in 80 video clips, the book and its dedicated website can help musicians of all skill levels achieve technical and creative freedom.

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Pedro de Alcantara's The Integrated String Player: Embodied Vibration is a practical guide for all string players: violinists and violists, cellists and bassists, but also gamba players and anyone who makes music drawing a bow across a string. Dozens of exercises, supported by a dedicated website with 80 video clips, cover all the basics of string playing, including left-hand articulation, vibrato, changes of position, double-stopping, sound production, string crossings, and many other techniques. Each exercise, however simple or complex, can become a meditation with the goal of integrating the musical, technical, and metaphysical aspects of a player's practice. Part I is devoted to the fundamentals of coordination, rhythm, and listening in depth. Part II focuses on the left hand, with an emphasis on healthy gestures that are charged with musicality and meaning. Part III covers the bowing arm, exploring innovative concepts such as expressive gesticulation, mechanical intelligence, and the use of the bow as the player's voice, both literally and symbolically. Part IV covers the integration of analytical thought and sensorial practice, providing an extensive study of the harmonic series, the circle of fifths, Tartini tones, and many other sonic aspects that are essential to a string player's musical freedom. In addition, the conversational, linguistic, compositional, and improvisatory dimensions of string playing are discussed and supported by multiple practical exercises. The Integrated String Player is addressed to players of all abilities and from all aesthetic backgrounds: students and professionals, teachers and performers, classically trained musicians and jazz players, chamber-music players and orchestral players.

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• Contents

• The Integrated Musician: A Book Series

• A Companion Website

• Introduction

• Part I: Coordination, Rhythm and Sound

• 1. Before Everything Else
• 2. Coordination
• 3. Rhythm
• 4. Listening

• Part II: The Right Side

• 5. The Bow: Object and Gesture
• 6. Strings, Drones, Clefs
• 7. Vowels and Consonants
• 8. Smart Makes Easy

• Part III: The Left Side

• 9. The Left Hand
• 10. Changes of Position
• 11. On Vibrato
• 12. The Art of Fingering

• Part IV: Integration

• 13. The Harmonic Series
• 14. Practicing Theory
• 15. The Conversational Approach
• 16. Integration

• Conclusion

• Appendix: Further Study

• Notes

• Bibliography