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Books of Special Interest to Musicians
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| Indirect Procedures: A Musician's Guide to the Alexander Technique by Pedro De Alcantara/Paperback/Published 1997. One of the best new books about the Alexander Technique. A comprehensive introduction followed by a great deal of material of interest to instrumentalists and singers. Click here for Price and Availability Information |
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Mind and Muscle - An Owner's Handbook by Elizabeth
Langford/Paperback/Published 1999. An excellent practical
explantion of the way our body functions by an
experienced Alexander Technique teacher and musician.
Lots of useful information for instrumentalists and
singers. Click here for Price and
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| How to Learn the Alexander Technique: A Manual for Students by Barbara and William Conable/ Paperback/Published 1996. This book was reviewed in the section "Introductory books about the Alexander Technique" and is included here because it contains a lot of information of special interest to musicians. Click here for Price and Availability Information |
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What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body by Barbara Conable, Published 1998. Spiral Binding. The practical application of Body Mapping and the Alexander Technique to making music by an experienced Alexander teacher. Click here for Price and Availability Information |
| The Structures and Movement of Breathing by Barbara Conable. Forward by James Jordon. Published 2001, Paperback. A primer for choirs and choireses, written by a teacher of the Alexander Technique. Click here for Price and Availability Information |
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Tensions in the Performance of Music, edited by Carola Grindea with an introduction by Yehudi Menuhen/ Paperback/Published 1995. A wide-ranging collection of articles. One by Nelly Ben-Or on the application of the Alexander Technique to piano is well worth reading by all instrumentalists. Click here for Price and Availability Information |
| What Every Pianist Needs to Know About the Body by Robert Gary, Thom Miles and Thomas Mack, Paperback/Published 200. Techniques for gaining greater ease of movement for piano players, with an emphasis on "body mapping", an outgrowth of the Alexander Technique. |
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| The Pianist's Talent: A New Approach to Piano Playing Based on the Principles of F. Matthias Alexander and Raymond Thiberge by Harold Taylor/Paperback/1979. The subtitle is misleading, as the book is primarily about the pedagogy of French pianist Thiberge, a teacher who addressed himself to some of the same issues as F. Matthias Alexander. Lots of interesting parallels to the Alexander Technique. Click here for Price and Availability Information | |
Several other books of special interest to musicians are available from the The American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT). Among them are The Voice Book by Michael McCallion, The Use of the Voice by Rob Macdonald and The Alexander Technique and the Pedagogy of Paul Rolland by Carol Porter McCullogh.
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