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:
Pilates Studios in the United Kingdom:
Pilates Studios in Australia:
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”
- Ask a Monk: Samatha and Vipassana
- Practitioners of Transcendental Meditation
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Testimonials
- 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)
- The Vocal Athlete
- The Vocal Athlete: Application and Technique for the Hybrid Singer
- 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
