Foreword, by Composer Mark Camphouse |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction |
Chapter 1: The Mystery of Musical Expression |
The Search for Meaning |
Communication |
Mind and Body Connection |
The 'Eye' Has No Intelligence |
Release Student Potential |
Practicing |
Other Factors for Consideration |
Chapter 2: The Meaning of Ensemble |
Inter- and Intra-personal Development |
Listening and Hearing |
Making Musical Decisions |
To Answer or Not to Answer |
Chapter 3: The Natural Laws of Musical Expression |
Low Searches for High |
High Searches for Low |
Short Looks for Long |
Style ... Characteristic ... Interpretation |
5 Steps for 'Feeling' and 'Style' |
Language of Articulation |
Intensity |
Teaching Intensity |
Chapter 4: Free Form Expression |
Memorization |
The Grand Master Scale |
The 'Key' to Improvisation |
Building Chords through Scale Tones |
Scale Modes and Improvisation |
Chapter 5: The Space of Silence |
Silence |
Release or the Beginning of Silence? |
Sound Moving into Infinity |
Room Resonance and Decay |
Tuning and Aligning Overtones |
Chapter 6: Pulse, Time and Rhythm |
Naturals and Hidden Pulse of Music |
3 Levels of Ensemble Pulse |
Chapter 7: Conducting |
Free Form Movement |
Conductor's Vocabulary |
Chapter 8:Coda |
Sources and References |
About the Author |
Other Publications |