An illustrated guide for the amateur and professional musician that teaches us how to transform practicing from an often laborious activity into an exhilarating and rewarding experience Foreword by Yehudi Menuhin • “Give this book to any musician you love and to any person who loves what music does for them and for the world.”—Richard Stoltzman, clarinetist In The Art of Practicing, acclaimed pianist and teacher Madeline Bruser combines physiological and meditative principles to help musicians release physical and mental tension and unleash their innate musical talent. She offers practical techniques for cultivating free and natural movement, a keen enjoyment of sounds and sensations, a clear and relaxed mind, and an open heart and she explains how to: • Prepare the body and mind to practice with ease • Understand the effect of posture on flexibility and expressiveness • Make efficient use of the hands and arms • Employ listening techniques to improve coordination • Increase the range of color and dynamics by using less effort • Cultivate rhythmic vitality • Perform with confidence, warmth, and freedom Complete with photographs to show essential points of posture and movement for a variety of instruments, this is the definitive guide to turning practice from a sometimes frightening, monotonous chore to a fun, fulfilling activity.

Students are drawn to mobile technologies such as iPads and smartphones because of the sheer endless possibilities of the digital worlds they hold. But how can their potential for stimulating the imagination be effectively used in the music classroom to support students' development of musical thinking? Countering voices that see digital technologies as a threat to traditional forms of music making and music education, this collection explores the many ways in which hand-held devices can be used to promote student learning and provides teachers with guidance on making them a vital presence in their own classrooms. Creative Music Making at Your Fingertips features 11 chapters by music education scholars and practitioners that provide tried-and-true strategies for using mobile devices in a variety of contexts, from general music education to ensembles and from K-12 to college classrooms. Drawing on their own experiences with bringing mobile devices and different music apps into the classroom, contributors show how these technologies can be turned into tools for teaching performance, improvisation, and composition. Their practical advice on how pedagogy and mobile technologies can be aligned to increase students' creative engagement with music and help them realize their musical potential makes this book an invaluable resource for music educators who want to be at the forefront of pedagogical transformations made possible by 21st-century technologies.

The "story of a child prodigy caught in a grotesque pattern of exploitaiton and abuse, her oppressor, her father, whose controlling passion was money, not music. After fleeing from her father and growing up in unhappy obscurity, Ruth Slenczynska has become again a remarkable and now mature pianist." Pub W.

Gathered from Twain's classic novels, diary entries, newspaper articles, and correspondence, this collection of wry quips and quotes offers the great humorist and storyteller's observations on animals, critics, politics, youth, and more.

The purpose of this book is to introduce you to one of the most simple, elegant and powerful self-help tools that you may ever come across to change your energy. It's called EFT which is short for Emotional Freedom Techniques. EFT is based on leveraging the wisdom and healing of using energy meridians which have been around for thousands of years. Unresolved negative emotions are often the cause behind many mental and physical issues. With EFT, by simply tapping with your fingertips on certain points on your face and body, while you concentrate on whatever bothers you, EFT helps clear the energy blocks of negative, uncomfortable emotions. "Freedom at Your Fingertips," is the ultimate question and answer guidebook for using Emotional Freedom Techniques to feel more energized and alive. We all have barriers, beliefs and blocks that show up in our lives as physical and emotional limitations. Now with EFT, you'll learn a breakthrough system that offers you a simple, powerful way to erase unwanted negative feelings, clearing the way to more positive ones. It's a self-help tool that you'll have at your fingertips for resolving just about any physical or emotional issue that bothers you. Using EFT, typically a problem or condition is gone or greatly diminished in just a matter of minutes. In fact, people are usually amazed. They're surprised to find that EFT often works when nothing else seems to help. "Freedom at Your Fingertips" is loaded with a wealth of ideas and information you can put to practical use in all areas of your life immediately. There are 19 topics areas, over 300 examples of specific EFT setup phrases and 50 real life cases stories of proven results for ways you can use EFT to overcome some of the most common emotional and physical issues. Of course, as you'll learn in the book, we encourage you to try EFT on everything and discover its surprisingly wondrous results for yourself. "Freedom at Your Fingertips" is the only book available that has been co-authored by 20 World Class EFT practitioners: Gloria Arenson, Ron Ball, Gwenn Bonnell, Paul & Layne Cutright, Lindsay Kenny, Dr. Alexander R. Lees, Carol Look, Angela Treat Lyon, Rebecca Marina, Betty Moore-Hafter, Carol Solomon, Loretta Sparks, Mary Stafford, Carol Tuttle, Stacey Vornbrock, Maryam Webster, Rick Wilkes, Brad Yates and Jan Yordy. The foreword is by Dr. Joseph Mercola.

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Emphasis on helping students in grades 2-6 learn a variety of research methods. Features one continent and related topic per chapter. Methods include IQueST worksheets, keyword tic-tac-toe, KWL (Know, What, Learn) forms, graphic organizers, and more.