Oct 7 - Week 8 - Meeting 8 / You are Your Instrument: My Name is Effort

 

 Unit: You are Your Instrument

Theme: My Name is Effort

I

  Introduction

This class will focus on the repercussion efforts has on the body of the musician. One's a messaged is ingrained in the motor cortex, it automatically dictates the nerve-to-muscle system how to react. Soon, the whole body is affected by the breathing patterns and the shallow breathing the musician engages with inadvertently. Mounting resistance to practice and performance makes the musician to disengage. 



 II

 Learning Objectives


  • Understand the effect effort  has on the body
  •  Explain the connection between the motor cortex and the nerve-to-muscle system
  • Gain a command of deep breathing during practice and performance
  • Experience a greater awareness of the mounting resistance developed as a result of manipulation and threats.
  • Reflect on the work done in class


 III

 Main Lesson 

 

1 

Read

My Name is Effort (First page)

 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

 

2

Physical Effort
 
Read 
  Though my violinist past helped me a great deal as an accompanist , I now became more conscious of the physical and mechanical process of violin playing . Upon a little analysis I discovered that it wasn't so much my musical instinct that kept me together with the violinist but my close attention to how the violinist appeared. (Page 42)

 
 
3
 
Connection between the Motor Cortex and the Nerve-to-Muscle System
 
 
Read
 
Primary Motor Cortex
 
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/primary-motor-cortex
 
 
4
 
Deep Breathing
 

 

5 

Read 

Mounting Resistance 

 Bored of practice? Here's how to love playing again in just 100 days

 https://www.classical-music.com/features/instruments/how-to-return-to-practice

 

6 

Full Body Low Impact Workout


 

 7

 Activity

 Experience the new warm-up. 

1. Post a written reflection of your experience learning the main aspects of the new warm-up.

 

IV

 A Note to Remember

 Body image perceptions, social media influence, physical measurements, and their impact on psychological well-being interplay influencing psychological well-being.

 

 

V

 Case Study

 

Zlata Brouwer
 

Zlata Brouwer is a bowing Coach. She is a classical violinist who helps violin and viola players to feel by teaching them all about bow technique.

 


 

VI

Discussion Questions

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

3. Why is the study of muscle use, resting periods and awareness of our own mental and physical  tendencies and capacities important ?

Post your answer on Discussion Board

 

VII

 Activity

 


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VIII

 Glossary

 


IX

 Sources

1. Augus, Ayke (2001). Heifetz as I New Him. Amadeus Press. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Heifetz_as_I_Knew_Him/8ymzqE9kv0sC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=physical+effort+for+violin+players&pg=PA42&printsec=frontcover

2. 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


X
 
Students' Work


 

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