The Mind's Ear
Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination for Performers, Composers, and Listeners
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Product details:
- Edition number 3
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 October 2021
- ISBN 9780197576328
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 209x141x21 mm
- Weight 272 g
- Language English
- Illustrations - 164
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Short description:
The Mind's Ear is a unique and fun series of games, exercises, and essays designed to inspire musical creativity and spark the imagination of musicians and music students at all levels. The book can be used in workshops, classes, online sessions, private lessons, and by a reader alone. Based on theatre games, these exercises offer new ways to engage with musical creativity.
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The Mind's Ear offers a unique approach to stimulating the musical imagination and inspiring creativity, as well as providing detailed exercises aimed at improving the ability to read and imagine music in silence, in the "mind's ear." Modelling his exercises on those used in theatre games and acting classes and drawing upon years of experience with improvisation and composition, Bruce Adolphe has written a compelling, valuable, and practical guide to musical creativity that can benefit music students at all levels and help music teachers be more effective and inspiring. This expanded edition offers 34 new exercises inspired by improv comedy, hip-hop sampling and loops, robots, and AI as well as a new section based on Mr. Adolphe's Piano Puzzlers segment on public radio's Performance Today. The book provides provocative ideas and useful tools for professional performers and composers, as well as offering games and exercises to serious listeners that can increase their musical understanding and level of engagement with music in a variety of ways.
I direct a seminar on the Beethoven string quartets at the Department of Medical Humanities at Columbia University, and I find The Mind's Ear to be an invaluable wellspring of ideas to engage these medical students in a way that is fresh, challenging, and fun. These students come from a wide variety of musical backgrounds, and the group exercises prescribed by The Mind's Ear allow them to focus on skills—hearing multiple lines, listening while vocalizing, and following cues from the peers—that they enjoy honing. These activities break the ice, expand the mind, and broaden the perspective. They make the students better listeners, and perhaps better doctors!
Table of Contents:
About the third edition
Preface
A note to teachers (and students, too)
A word about improvisation for Classical musicians
How to use this book
More tips for using this book
List of exercises
About the companion website
Introduction
I Exercises to be done in silence
II Exercises involving groups
III Exercises using musical instruments
IV The feeling of an idea
V Exercises in composing
VI Piano Puzzler Preparation
Coda
About the author
Index
