The Musician's Body: A Maintenance Manual for Peak Performance

ISBN-13: 9781138453241 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Llobet, Jaume Rosset i

Opis

Suitable for student musicians, practising musicians, and instrumental and vocal teachers, this book aims to help them to begin to understand how and why their bodies function as they do when they perform. It also aims to teach them how they may avoid professionally related illness or injury and achieve the highest standards of performance.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements, Foreword, Preface: Being well, playing better, Safety instructions, 1 Basic functions, 2 Situations that place the musician at risk, 3 Posture Your body in harmony with your instrument, 4 Musicians, instruments and the workplace Adjusting the task to suit your body, 5 The musician’s body explained, 6 Mind and music Further psychological aspects, 7 Troubleshooting for musicians Basic body maintenance and solving problems, About this book, Sources of further information, Recommended bibliography, Index

O autorze

Jaume Rosset i Llobet, George Odam