| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Local Note |
Westminster Choir College faculty member publication. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-219). |
| Contents |
Metaphor as our best pedagogy -- Abide. To abide ; Honesty -- Power of refractive breath. Breath is truly prismatic and refractive ; Necessary breath metaphors ; Inciting refraction through visitation of ideas ; Building your own telescope ; Practicing refractive breathing ; More on refractive being and doing -- Establishing a sense of belonging: synesthesia and entanglement is a refraction. Breath -- the refractive medium ; What really does it mean to "belong to one another"? -- To abide = generosity -- Aleph. Perceiving silence - our "seventh" sense -- Self-realization as a way of making music. Refractive word lists ; Faces and human spirit are refractive - a true myth ; Belief in one's prism ; Addison's walk -- Choir as teacher. Choir as friends -- A musician's instincts: our light-generating source. Trusting instincts ; A possible way in: chant ; Mimetic challenges to inner exploration ; Impulse -- Honesty as a refraction: revisiting breath...yet again. It's not about taking a breath ; "NASCAR lights" of breathing ; Prismatic refraction vis breath: a true reflection of our interior landscape ; Opening and releasing ; Opening must reflect and refract our soul: expanding our inner space ; A technical sidebar ; Depositing sound in rests -- Refraction begins with predictive audiation: space audiation set in motion by the conductor. Causative audiation ; Predictive audiational breath: the pentecost of song ; Effect of predictive audiation on harmonic rhythm -- Prism thing. A deep and abiding belief in storying ; Awareness created by our individual story -- A mirror of our better selves: our past is the reflective material of our prism. A place for prism polishing -- Refraction as our truest resonance: understanding "thin". Afterglow refraction ; So what is 'thin' an why is it so important to artistry? ; Portal into "thin" ; A caution about the sublime ; Conducting is not about painting pretty pictures -- When true simplicity is gained. A word on ritual ; What solitude feels like: understanding the biology of the soul -- Our internal lens: glass window, refractive prism, or mirror? Light vortex ; Conductor as vortex ; Glass: the material of our prism ; Conductor's prism ; Final words and ideas -- Interior reflective castle of the conductor. Building our prismatic rooms ; Eight rooms of self-knowledge ; Allowing burning -- Silence to light -- Kitsch. Gestural kitsch ; Audiences are different ; Diction as kitsch ; Kitsch avoids connection with breath ; Beat as kitsch ; Gesture as kitsch ; False metaphors as kitsch ; Conclusion -- Hearing our refraction for the first time -- Mining: the necessary journey into our loneliness. Loneliness as our prism "polish" ; Realizations taught by music ; Miner as artist explorer ; It's about being brave: the importance of nakedness and authenticity -- Construction of the prism and the origin of our light source. Internal Family Systems Model (IFS). Level 1. Somatic awareness ; Level 2. Conscious breath ; Level 3. Somatic resonance ; Level 4. Mindful movement ; Level 5. Attuned touch -- Five classical elements -- Attuned touch and Akash -- Light source and the prism -- Bibliography -- About the author. |
| Summary |
"Understanding artistry and those "things" that contribute to honest and direct musical expression are concepts that are both difficult to teach and difficult for us to understand as conductors and teachers. Born out of his teaching at The Choral Institute at Oxford each summer, James Jordan has realized the power of metaphor for teaching the highest artistic concepts involving human connection and deeper listening. The home of The Choral Institute at Oxford is St. Stephen's House, the very place that C.S. Lewis worshipped. In this book, Jordan adapts Lewis's love of powerful and effective metaphors. Jordan uses metaphors as a guide to help conductors engage the most profound the concepts of artistry in music, concepts that are often elusive to teach or learn. These metaphors can be effective doorways to understand our role as artist teacher/conductors in new and vibrant ways" -- Back cover. |
| Subject |
Conducting.
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Conducting. |
| ISBN |
9781622772407 |
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1622772407 |
| Music No. |
G-9533 GIA Publications, Inc. |
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9533 GIA Publications, Inc. |
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