The Art of Practicing

Author: Madeline Bruser
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307833747
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
An illustrated guide for the amateur and professional musician that teaches us how to transform practicing from an often laborious activity into an exhilarating and rewarding experience Foreword by Yehudi Menuhin • “Give this book to any musician you love and to any person who loves what music does for them and for the world.”—Richard Stoltzman, clarinetist In The Art of Practicing, acclaimed pianist and teacher Madeline Bruser combines physiological and meditative principles to help musicians release physical and mental tension and unleash their innate musical talent. She offers practical techniques for cultivating free and natural movement, a keen enjoyment of sounds and sensations, a clear and relaxed mind, and an open heart and she explains how to: • Prepare the body and mind to practice with ease • Understand the effect of posture on flexibility and expressiveness • Make efficient use of the hands and arms • Employ listening techniques to improve coordination • Increase the range of color and dynamics by using less effort • Cultivate rhythmic vitality • Perform with confidence, warmth, and freedom Complete with photographs to show essential points of posture and movement for a variety of instruments, this is the definitive guide to turning practice from a sometimes frightening, monotonous chore to a fun, fulfilling activity.

Practicing

Author: Glenn Kurtz
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307489760
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 251

Book Description
In a remarkable memoir written with insight and humor, Glenn Kurtz takes us from his first lessons at the age of eight to his acceptance at the elite New England Conservatory of Music. After graduation, he attempts a solo career in Vienna but soon realizes that he has neither the ego nor the talent required to succeed and gives up the instrument, and his dream, entirely. But not forever: Returning to the guitar, Kurtz weaves into the narrative the rich experience of a single practice session. Practicing takes us on a revelatory, inspiring journey: a love affair with music.

The Art of Practising

Author: Alice Artzt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781515231639
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
For guitarists - A guide to developing technical precision and efficiency by analyzing difficulties, reducing them to their simplest most basic form, and then selecting from an almost endless catalog of possibilities - basic patterns of finger movement - which can then be developed into exercises of any degree of simplicity or complexity required.

The Art of Awakening

Author: Konchog Lhadrepa
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834840618
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 437

Book Description
A presentation on the Tibetan Buddhist path to enlightenment, through the lens of an artist's eye and experience. The sacred arts play an essential, intrinsic role in Tibetan Buddhist practice. Here, one of the great practitioners and master artists of our time presents a guide to the Tibetan Buddhist path, from preliminary practices through enlightenment, from the artist's perspective. With profound wisdom, he shows how visual representations of the sacred in paintings, sculptures, mandalas, and stupas can be an essential support to practice throughout the path. This work, based on the author's landmark Tibetan text, The Path to Liberation, includes basic Buddhist teachings and practices, clearly pointing out the relevance of these for both the sacred artist and the practitioner, along with an overview of the history and iconography of Buddhist art.

Transatlantic Reflections on the Practice-Based PhD in Fine Art

Author: Jessica Schwarzenbach
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131762503X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
Once the US was the only country in the world to offer a doctorate for studio artists, however the PhD in fine art disappeared after pressures established the MFA as the terminal degree for visual artists. Subsequently, the PhD in fine art emerged in the UK and is now offered by approximately 40 universities. Today the doctorate is offered in most English-speaking nations, much of the EU, and countries such as China and Brazil. Using historical, political, and social frameworks, this book investigates the evolution of the fine art doctorate in the UK, what the concept of a PhD means to practicing artists from the US, and why this degree disappeared in the US when it is so vigorously embraced in the UK and other countries. Data collected through in-depth interviews examine the perspectives of professional artists in the US who teach graduate level fine art. These interviews disclose conflicting attitudes toward this advanced degree and reveal the possibilities and challenges of developing a potential doctorate in studio art in the US.

The Art of Aikido: Theory and Practice. Manual for instructors

Author: Angelina Demilkhanova
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5043097906
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description
The guide is divided into two parts:1) theoretical aspects of aikido2) practical aspects.Particular attention is paid to the psychological component of the organization of training. The authors pay considerable attention to the history of the origin and development of aikido and its philosophical foundations. A separate part of the manual is devoted to the methods of organizing and conducting trainings.The book may be intrested to instructors who teach aikido and those who practice this art.

Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences

Author: Jon Klancher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107029104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
This book discusses how Romantic-age writers and new cultural institutions transformed ideas of knowledge inherited from the early-modern period.

Exploring the Benefits of Creativity in Education, Media, and the Arts

Author: Silton, Nava R.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1522505059
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 483

Book Description
The use of imagination can lead to greater outcomes in problem solving, innovation, and critical thinking. By providing access to creative outlets, productivity increases in schools, businesses, and other professional settings. Exploring the Benefits of Creativity in Education, Media, and the Arts is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on the stimulation and implementation of creative thinking in academic and professional environments. Highlighting the foundations of creativity from theoretical and neuroscientific perspectives, this book is ideally designed for academics, professionals, educators, and practitioners.

Practicing Art and Anthropology

Author: Anna Laine
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000181073
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
Practicing Art and Anthropology presents an in-depth exploration of transdisciplinary work in the expanding space between art and anthropology. Having trained and worked as an artist as well as an anthropologist, Anna Laine’s decades-long engagement in art practice, artistic research and anthropology provide her with a unique perspective on connections between the two fields, both in theory and in practice. Intertwining artistic and anthropological ways of working, Laine asks what it means to engage a transdisciplinary stance when academia requires a specific disciplinary belonging. In order to expand the methods of producing academic knowledge by going beyond conventional approaches to research, she draws on examples from her own work with Tamils in India and the UK to present an original take on how we can cross the boundaries between art and anthropology to reach multiple dimensions of understanding. Offering exceptional breadth and detail, Practicing Art and Anthropology provides a unique approach to the discussion. An important read for students and scholars in art and anthropology as well as artists and anyone interacting in the space in-between.

Research in the Creative and Media Arts

Author: Desmond Bell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429959419
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
In Research in the Creative and Media Arts, Desmond Bell looks at contemporary art and design practice, arguing that research activity is now a vital part of the creative dynamic. Today, creative arts and media students are expected to develop a range of research competencies and critical capacities in their creative project work. This book plots the basis for a research culture in the creative and media arts. It provides an illuminating genealogy of artistic research, revealing the intimate connections between art and science over the centuries and identifying some of the founding figures of practice-based artistic research. Bell explores the research that artists undertake through a number of case studies, talking to a range of contemporary artists and media makers about their work and the role research plays in this. He also traces the dialogues between art practice and a range of other humanity disciplines, such as history, anthropology and critical theory. His analysis reveals how contemporary art practice is now so locked into a set of interlocutions about process and purpose that it increasingly resembles a research practice in and of itself. Research in the Creative and Media Arts is a comprehensive overview of the relationship between research and practice that is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as researchers in the fields of art and design, art history and visual culture.