Spirited Wind Playing

The Performance Dimension

Kim Walker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

354 Seiten

2016
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-02484-8 (ISBN)

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Peppered with tips, helpful hints, and personal anecdotes to illustrate real-life application, this performance guide is essential for any wind player interested in taking his or her virtuosity to the next level. Internationally renowned bassoonist Kim Walker has compiled into one book the teachings and exercises that have made her known as an expert on bassoon performance, practice, and instruction. From basics like posture, breathing techniques, and articulation to a survey of the performance practices of key woodwind and brass masters, Walker includes an analysis of each technique along with images and exercises that present the mechanics of each method.

Kim Walker is an internationally distinguished performer and teacher. She is currently based in Australia and serves as a Guest Professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She has toured worldwide as a soloist, recorded with many leading orchestras in Europe and the United States, and has more than 30 solo CDs to her name. In 2012, after decades of teaching and performing as Professor of Music at Indiana University and, later, Dean and Principal Professor of Music at the University of Sydney, she returned to performing, conducting, speaking, coaching and consulting.

Foreword, by Peter J. Schoenbach
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Seven Core Essentials
Section 1: On the Air
1. Stand Tall: Posture and Balance
2. The Centered Performance
3. Breathing On The Air
4. Magnetic Tone Production: Head and Body Resonance
Section 2: Spirited Wind Playing
5. Embouchure and Powerful Projection
6. Get On With It! Warm-Up and Practice Routine
7. Deft Articulation: An Integral Art of Wind Playing
8. Vibrato: The Great Debate
9. Virtuosity: Dancing Fingers Lead the Way
Section 3: The Performance Dimension
10. Memory Made Simple
11. Winning Auditions
12. The Performance Dimension
Conclusion: Why is it So Easy to Put All This Together?
Key Resources

Erscheinungsdatum	30.11.2016
Vorwort	Peter J. Schoenbach
Zusatzinfo	4 Tables, black and white; 8 Printed music items; 62 Halftones, color
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-10	0-253-02484-6 / 0253024846
ISBN-13	978-0-253-02484-8 / 9780253024848
Zustand	Neuware