Aug 26 - Week 2 - Meeting 2 / You are Your Instrument: Foreword

 

 



 Unit: You are Your Instrument

Theme: Prevention


I

  Introduction

The field of music medicine has become key in providing care to musicians. The Foreword of "You are Your Instrument," already introduces the idea of prevention as the necessary practice to keep one's primary instrument, the body, in optimum shape.



 II

 Learning Objectives


  • Introduction to the student's research
  • Understand the meaning of prevention
  •  Explain the importance of music medicine
  • Gain an awareness of the importance of prevention
  • Experience the routine from last class as a preventive exercise
  • Reflect on the work done in class


 III

 Main Lesson


1

 

a. Introduction to student's research.

b. Write a brief introduction where you explain how this independent study course will fit into your own research.


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2 

Medical Problems of Performing Artists 

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/scimed/mppa 

 

3 

Read

You are your Instrument: Foreword 

 https://www.google.com/books/edition/You_are_Your_Instrument/dMsX3hN1JAgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=conditioning+for+the+standing+musician&pg=PT2&printsec=frontcover

 

4

 Watch the Full Body Workout for Musicians



 

 4

 Activity

 Experience the Warm Up 

3. Post a written reflection of your experience learning the main steps of the exercise routine from the video above.

 

IV

 A Note to Remember

 Part of what performance and performance studies allow us to do, then, is take seriously the repertoire of embodied practices as an important system of knowing and transmitting knowledge. (Taylor 26)

 

V

 Case Study

Steve Kortyka 


 

VI

Discussion Questions

1. Summarize your ideas about the work done in class today.

2. Why is the study of the musician's body an important epistemological frame when trying to prevent injuries ?

Post your answer on Discussion Board

 

VII

 Activity

 

 Experience the Warm Up 

3. Post a written reflection of your experience learning the main steps of the exercise routine from last class

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VIII

 Glossary

 


IX

 Sources

Taylor, Diana (2003). The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas. Duke University Press

Lyonn Lieberman, Julie (1991). You Are Your Instrument: The Definitive Musician’s Guide to Practice and Performance. Julie Lyonn Music

https://www.google.com/books/edition/You_are_Your_Instrument/dMsX3hN1JAgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=conditioning+for+the+standing+musician&pg=PT2&printsec=frontcover
 
 
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Students' Work


 

 

 

 

 

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