What Every Musician Should Know About The Body Book

What Every Musician Should Know About The Body Book 📚

The Practical Application of Body Mapping to Making Music

The book "What Every Musician Should Know About The Body" serves as a comprehensive guide to Body Mapping, a technique designed to improve physical awareness and freedom while making music. Written by Barbara Conable, an authority on the Alexander Technique, the book aims to help musicians protect themselves from injuries, master technical skills, and deepen their musical understanding through embodied intelligence.

Intended as a primer for musicians at any level, this book provides the fundamental principles that can serve as the foundation for music education. Whether you are a teacher or a student, the insights in this text promise to elevate your approach to music, optimising both performance and enjoyment. Teachers who incorporate these principles into their methods can expect to see their students flourish, while students who closely study this text will likely experience significant improvements in their performance.

The book also serves as the official text for a six-hour course on the Alexander Technique for musicians, also developed by Barbara Conable.

With 102 pages of invaluable content, it offers a lifetime of wisdom for musicians seeking to improve their craft physically and artistically.

“Music education belongs on a somatic foundation because musicians move for a living, like dancers and athletes, except that musicians’ movement is even more refined, precise, and rapid.” —Barbara Conable