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The Alexander Technique Bookshop is part of the Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique. Your purchases help support the site.		in association with Bookshop Departments: Introductions to the Alexander Technique Alexander Technique for Musicians Alexander Technique and Education Books by F.M. Alexander History of the Alexander Technique Alexander Technique Related Topics Bookshop Home Go to the Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique North America If you live in North America you will probably save shipping costs and time by ordering through the Alexander Technique Bookstore in association with AMAZON.COM and AMAZON.CA. Click here to go to the Alexander Technique Bookstore. Kindle - Amazon's Wireless Reading Device Featured Book Indirect Procedures: A Musician's Guide to the Alexander Technique by Pedro De Alcantara Paperback/Published 1997 A comprehensive introduction followed by a great deal of material of interest to instrumentalists and singers. Order Now
	Voice and the Alexander Technique by Jane Ruby Heirich Hardcover/Published 2004 A compehensive guide to good vocal use by an experienced Alexander Technique teacher. Includes a CD. A valuable resource for singers, public speakers and anyone who wants to improve the quality of their voice. Click here for Price and Availability Information Click here to read an excerpt from this book. Click here to read a review of this book.
	Indirect Procedures: A Musician's Guide to the Alexander Technique by Pedro De Alcantara Paperback/Published 1997 One of the best books about the Alexander Technique. A comprehensive introduction followed by a great deal of material of interest to instrumentalists and singers. Listen to an interview with the author Click here for Price and Availability Information
	What Every Singer Needs to Know About the Body by Melissa Malde, MaryJean Allen, and Kurt-Alexander Zeller Paperback/Published 2008 This book gives singers and their teachers a body mapping resources from anatomy and physiology to help them discover and correct misconceptions about the way their bodies are built and the way they function so they can sing better. Click here for Price and Availability Information
	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 Availablity Information
	What Every Muscian 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
	The Structures and Movement of Breathing by Barbara Conable Forward by James Jordan Paperback/Published in 2001 A primer for choirs and choruses, written by a teacher of the Alexander Technique. Click here for Price and Availability
	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 Mark Paperback/Published 2008 Techniques for gaining greater ease of movement for piano players, with an emphasis on "body mapping," an outgrowth of the Alexander Technique. Click here for Price and Availability Information
	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/Published 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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