So You Want to Sing with Awareness: A Guide for Performers

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Chapters 3 & 4  Chapters 5-7  Chapters 8-10  Chapters 11-13  Editor and Contributors

Chapter 1 – Alexander Technique (Larry Lee Hensel)

Web Resources:

• The Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique
• Alexander Technique International
• American Society for the Alexander Technique
• Alexander Technique Blogs
• Direction: A Journal on the Alexander Technique
• Alexander Technique Glossary of Terms

YouTube Videos:

• Michelle Obrecht: Introduction to the Alexander Technique
• August Berger: Change Your Life with the Alexander Technique
• Jack Stern: Introduction to the Alexander Technique
• Marjorie Barstow: Short Introduction to the Alexander Technique

Books:

• How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live
• Body Learning: An Introduction to the Alexander Technique
• Dance and the Alexander Technique: Exploring the Missing Link
• The Actor and the Alexander Technique

Chapter 2 – The Feldenkrais Method (Elizabeth L. Blades)

• Feldenkrais Guild of North America (FGNA)
• A Documentary on the Feldenkrais Method
• Moshe Feldenkrais: South Bend, Indiana Feldenkrais Method Workshop
• Singing with Your Whole Self: A Singer’s Guide to Awareness through Movement
• The Potent Self: A Study of Spontaneity and Compulsion
• The Brain That Changes Itself
• Soft-Wired: How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Can Change Your Life

Chapter 3 – Yoga for Singers (Linda Lister)

• Sun Salutations in Joyce DiDonato’s Master Class at Carnegie Hall
• Ujjayi Breathing with Rosalie Yoga
• Christina Aguilera’s Yoga Practice
• Om Chanting
• UNLV Opera: State of Grace by Linda Lister
• Yoga for Singers: Freeing Your Voice and Spirit through Yoga
• Voice Secrets: 100 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Singer

Chapter 4 – Pilates and the Singing Actor (Joan Melton)

Pilates Studios in the United States:

• Kinespirit
• Power Pilates
• A Body of Work

Pilates Studios in the United Kingdom:

• Time Out
• The Sky and the Sea
• Australian Physiotherapy and Pilates Group

Pilates Studios in Australia:

• Green Goodness
• Studio 35 Pilates
• Errol Street Spinal and Sports Physiotherapy

Pilates Exercises and Resources:

• Joan Melton: The Technical Core
• Gyrotonic Videos
• James Harrison: Singing in Sitting Suburi
• Pelvic Floor Anatomy

Chapter 5 – Body Mapping (Jan Prokop)

• Andover Educators
• Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing
• Physical Therapy Video
• What Every Singer Needs to Know about the Body
• Body Mapping Articles
• Body Mapping Bibliography

Chapter 6 – The CoreSinging Approach (Meribeth Dayme)

• CoreSinging
• Online Teacher Certification Training Program 
• Bioenergy Demonstration by Dr. Valerie Hunt
• Ellen Langer: Mindfulness over Matter
• Qigong with Dr. Jesse Tsao
• Dynamic Balance Animation
• The Performer’s Voice

Chapter 7 – Meditation (Michelle DeBruyn)

Lectures and Documentaries:

• Andy Puddicombe TED Talk: “All It Takes Is Ten Mindful Minutes”
• Practitioners of Transcendental Meditation
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Testimonials
• Ask a Monk: Samatha and Vipassana
• The Stress Response in Animation
• Max Strom TED Talk: “Breathe to Heal”
• Alternate Nostril Breathing
• Light Watkins TED Talk: “Debunking the Five Most Common Meditation Myths”
• Dealing with Anxiety in Meditation

Meditations:

• Kirtan Kriya Meditation: Kundalini
• Body Scan Meditation Led by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Opening and Calming Meditation Led by Tara Brach
• Loving Kindness Meditation
• Guided Vedic Meditation

Chapter 8 – An Introduction to Tomatis Listening (Susan Hurley)

• The Ear and the Voice
• Listening for Wellness: An Introduction to the Tomatis Method
• When Listening Comes Alive: A Guide to Effective Learning and Communication
• The Conscious Ear
• Perspectives on Listening
• Tomatis Reading List
• Listening Centre Articles
• Listening Center “Earobics” CDs

Chapter 9 – The Brain, Music, and Optimal Performance: Cognitive Neuroscience for Singers (Karen Leigh-Post)

• Power Performance for Singers: Transcending the Barriers
• Mind-Body Awareness for Singers: Unleashing Optimal Performance
• Attentional Processing: The Brain’s Art of Mindfulness
• Art, Mind, and Brain: A Cognitive Approach to Creativity
• Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics
• Voice: Psyche and Soma
• For the Love of the Game
• This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

Chapter 10 – The Missing Mind: The Third Pillar of Voice Pedagogy (Lynn Helding)

• Your Voice: An Inside View
• The Science of the Singing Voice
• The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
• Feelings and Emotions: The Amsterdam Symposium
• The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory
• Motor Learning and Performance: From Principles to Application
• Thought in Action: Expertise and the Conscious Mind

Chapter 11 – Singing and Voice Science (Scott McCoy)

• Your Voice: An Inside View
• National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS)
• National Center for Voice and Speech (NCVS)
• The Voice Foundation (TVF)

Chapter 12 – Vocal Health for Singers (Wendy LeBorgne)

• Visualizations for Singers
• Power Performance for Singers: Transcending the Barriers
• Supplemental Bibliography

Chapter 13 – Awareness and Singing: Toward a Holistic Approach

• The Science of Vocal Pedagogy: Theory and Application
• Singing: The Mechanism and the Technic
• The Structure of Singing: System and Art in Vocal Technique
• The Functional Unity of the Singing Voice
• Basics of Vocal Pedagogy: The Foundations and Process of Singing
• The Sounds of Singing: Vocal Techniques with Vowel-Pitch Charts
• Overtones of Bel Canto: Phonetic Basis for Artistic Singing
• The Science of the Singing Voice
• Your Voice: An Inside View
• Practical Vocal Acoustics: Pedagogic Applications for Teachers and Singers
• Kinesthetic Voice Pedagogy: Motivating Acoustic Efficiency
• “Parsing the Spectral Envelope: Toward a General Theory of Vocal Tone Color” [PDF]
• Vennard Symposium at the University of Southern California
• Vocology: The Science and Practice of Voice Habilitation
• The Vocal Athlete
• The Inner Game of Music
• The Voice Foundation
• Summer Vocology Institute

About the Editor and Contributors

• Matthew Hoch
• Larry Lee Hensel
• Elizabeth L. Blades and Samuel H. Nelson
• Linda Lister
• Joan Melton
• Jan Prokop
• Maribeth Dayme
• Michelle DeBruyn
• Susan Hurley
• Karen Leigh-Post
• Lynn Helding
• Wendy LeBorgne
• Scott McCoy
• Ann Baltz