Spring 2020  |  MUS 5150 Section 001: Body Awareness in Activity: The Alexander Technique for Musicians (54180)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Laboratory
Credits:
2 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Grade Sort
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020
Thu 11:15AM - 12:55PM
UMTC, West Bank
Ferguson Hall 81
Enrollment Status:
Open (11 of 12 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Alexander technique with specific applications to music performance. Emphasis on body/mind awareness to promote technical ease and freedom.
Class Description:
The Alexander Technique is a century-old technique used by musicians and others as a means of solving performance problems and achieving greater potential. For musicians, the interplay of the unconscious habits and body mechanics of daily "use of the self" strongly affect tone production and technical ease. The Alexander Technique provides tools to enhance fundamental coordination leading to improved performance and reduction in stage fright and musculoskeletal pain. The texts used are: "Indirect Procedures--A Musician's Guide to the Alexander Technique" by Pedro de Alcantara; and "Mind and Muscle" by Elizabeth Langford (available on reserve in library). Class discussions will center on assigned readings and each student will be responsible for two short papers on selected portions of the texts. Also open to non-musicians.
Grading:
33% Reports/Papers
33% Attendance
33% Class Participation
Class Format:
10% Lecture
25% Film/Video
25% Discussion
25% Laboratory
15% Demonstration individual work with students
Workload:
40 Pages Reading Per Week
4 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54180/1203
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
28 August 2010

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