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Twelve-tone technique - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The basis of twelve-tone technique is the tone row or set, an ordered arrangement of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale (the twelve equal tempered pitch classes), or, rather, an ordered arrangement of intervals which produce those notes. When the technique is applied most rigorously, an entire piece must be built up from statements of any transposition of this tone row in strict order or transformations of this row. Schoenberg's idea in developing the technique was for it to act as a replacement for tonal harmony as a basic grounding force for music. open-encyclopedia.com /Twelve_tone_technique   (1279 words)

Alexander Technique - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Alexander Technique educates the student's sense of kinesthesia or proprioception. Although the Alexander Technique is considered by those in its field to be primarily educational, taught in a student/teacher relationship as compared to being a treatment regimen between client and practitioner, it is regarded by the United Kingdom National Health Service to offer an alternative and complementary management for many medical complaints. Alexander Technique is difficult to describe and teach in words because it requires description of subjective kinesthetic sensations and momentary situations, as well as the ability to perceive them. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Technique   (4522 words)

Alexander Technique Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com The Alexander Technique is a means of improving posture and use of the body (and frequently speech) by essentially learning techniques to use one's body and mind together. In the United Kingdom, Alexander Technique teachers are in the process of being included in the Alternative medicine of the National health system. His technique was based on successfully finding his way past his loss of voice, and putting his discoveries into practice on himself. www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alexander_technique.html   (1372 words)

Keyboarding - Technique The importance of demonstrating and continuously encouraging proper technique with the students cannot be over-emphasized. Technique should be observed and closely monitored whenever students are operating a keyboard, whether they are keying a story or practising keyboarding drills. Technique is extremely important in the development of keyboarding skill and must be continuously encouraged. www.sasked.gov.sk.ca /docs/elemkey/technique.html   (1366 words)

Viper Records | Immortal Technique | Biography Born in a military hospital in South America, Immortal Technique was brought to the United States in the early 80's while a civil war was breaking out in his native Peru. Realizing his inevitable incarceration, Technique began to prolifically write down his ideas about what he had lived and seen in the struggle back at home in relation to his visits back to his native land. But it was then that Technique realized what every battle champion had come to terms with before him, battles was just that, battling, and not synonymous with success at making music. www.viperrecords.com /imtech/bio.shtml   (887 words)

Technique   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Technique facilitates the singer's musical expression by creating vocalism that functions freely, bringing the deepest parts of the singer's personality into the expressiveness of breath control, tone, phrasing, vowel quality, support, and drama. Technique should never become a crutch to the ego of the singer, but remain a means of opening the door to the richness of the singer's inner life. So vocal technique becomes a means of opening the heart and soul and essence of the personality as much as it is a means to improve the beauty of the voice. alpha.furman.edu /~bschoon/technique.html   (1055 words)

Alexander Technique: The Insiders' Guide This fundamental problem is addressed and dealt with in the Alexander Technique, a method that has been recognized for 100 years as a unique and remarkably effective technique of mind-body reeducation. John Dewey, the American philosopher, studied the technique for over 35 years and expressed a strong wish that the Alexander Technique be incorporated into the educational system. However, since classes and workshops attempt to teach the Alexander Technique in a group setting, there are some basic problems with them: They lack sufficient experience in the hands-on guidance integral to learning the Technique and at best they offer a cursory presentation of the Technique. www.alexandercenter.com   (2239 words)

Tomás Howie Drumming Web - Technique Technique is, simply and unglamorously, how you hit the drums when you play those notes. There are many components to good technique: how you hold your sticks, how you hit the drums, your posture, the height of your seat, and your hitting stroke. Lastly, this technique, coupled with the area on the head you are striking, results in a huge increase in the types of sounds you can get from your drum. www.drummingweb.com /technique.htm   (1341 words)

Simply Wonderful - Jill Freeman M.S.T.A.T. Teacher of the Alexander  Technique The technique is an educational process whereby you, the pupil, by means of lessons or group classes, are taught by a teacher to pursue changes that you choose to make. At the end of the nineteenth century, a young Australian actor embarked on a programme of self-observation in the hope that he would solve a persistent voice problem and be able to pursue his acting career. By the middle of the twentieth century, the Alexander Technique was established, admired by philosophers, doctors, scientists, educationalists, and many individuals appreciative of the greater ease with which they could live their lives. www.simplywonderful.co.nz   (250 words)

The Bowen Technique UK, Bowtech However, the Bowen Technique can also be extremely effective for musculo-skeletal problems such as back pain, sports injuries and many other ailments and discomforts. Currently, Certified Practitioners are using the Bowen Technique in Australia, North America, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Europe. The Bowen Association of the UK was established in 1997 and is the European arm of The Bowen Therapy Academy of Australia. www.bowen-technique.co.uk   (366 words)

Technique   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Teaching elements of the motion may include only one element of the technique or may be similar but easier than the actual element or motion. The details of a champion's technique, which amount to his or her "style", are only effective for that particular athlete. While teaching technique to beginners and young athletes coaches should focus on fundamentals and bio-mechanical principles of the movement, leaving room for the athlete to experiment with the details. www.sportislife.com /technique.htm   (888 words)

Changing The Way You Work: The Alexander Technique The technique teaches the use of the appropriate amount of effort for a particular activity, giving you more energy for all your activities. The Alexander Technique is a method which helps a person discover a new balance in the body by releasing unnecessary tension. On the left half of the illustration: Once the Alexander Technique directives are practiced, the head is balanced more freely on top of the spine, allowing the spine to lengthen upward and relieving pressure throughout the spine. www.horseshoes.com /advice/prentice/cntwywr.htm   (1177 words)

Alexander Technique with New Health UK magazine The Alexander Technique begins by showing you the underlying cause of pain, enabling you to eliminate the tension responsible for so many of the ailments that we mistakenly put down to the aging process. With the right education through a teacher of the Alexander Technique, many people could be helped to understand the causes of their problems and be taught to help themselves, so that their aches and pains may either be relieved or avoided altogether. Many people who practice the Technique experience a general feeling of lightness throughout their bodies and even describe the sensation as being like 'walking on air'. www.new-health.biz /learnabout/alexander.htm   (884 words)

Alexander Technique Not all Alexander Technique teachers are certified and not all teachers eligible for certification are members of a professional society. Bear in mind that while the basic ideas of the Alexander Technique are not in any way complex or mystical, they do represent a new way of thinking about the functioning of your body and may take a little getting used to at first. Therefore it is not surprising that most people come to the Alexander Technique because they are in pain (backaches, sore necks and shoulders, carpal tunnel syndrome etc.) and/or because they are performers who want to improve the quality of their singing, playing, acting or dancing. ergonomics.org /articles/atoverview   (700 words)

Alexander Technique - NYC and Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Alexander Technique is an integral part of the training for professional performers. She was certified in 1987 to teach the Alexander Technique, and is a member of the American Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (AmSAT). She is on the faculty of the Actor's Studio Drama School's Graduate Department at the New School University, and recently led an "Alexander for Actors" workshop at the New York Theatre Workshop, NYC. www.alextech-nyc.com   (356 words)

The Alexander Technique and Musicians Although there are subjective variations, according to the individual and the instrument, the general underlying pattern is that of trying to "do" breathing with excessive tension rather than allowing breath to move freely in and out of the body. In teaching this to another, however, unless one is especially observant or trained in this specific area, it is very difficult if not impossible to know whether or not the pupil is, in fact, carrying out the teacher's instructions in the way they were intended. With musicians it is often the extra demands which come with a full-time course at a Music College which expose the underlying faulty technique. www.alextech.demon.co.uk /wac202.htm   (3221 words)

Alexander Technique Workshops - Bring a Workshop to Your Area Group classes and workshops are one of the most enjoyable, effective and efficient ways for people to learn how to apply the principles of the Alexander Technique in their own lives. A practical solution is to bring an Alexander Technique workshop to your own area at a time convenient to you. Alexander Technique Workshops is dedicated to partnering with you to arrange a workshop that meets your individual needs. alexandertechniqueworkshops.org   (198 words)

Hayes School of Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The Alexander Technique is a course offered by Appalachian State University's Hayes School of Music to the students who are interested in improving their performance skills. A student of the Alexander Technique is encouraged to follow a similar path of self discovery and is often able to rediscover personal freedom and flexibility in all of his/her life endeavors. Brown began her study of the Alexander Technique in 1975 and did her major Alexander Technique study for ten years under the guidance of the late renowned Senior Teacher, Marjorie L. Barstow of Lincoln, Nebraska. www.acs.appstate.edu /dept/music/alexander/alextech.html   (399 words)

Buddhabrot fractal method I was later pleased to learn that a computer artist named Lori Gardi, who I had described this technique to several years ago, has since devoted a great deal of her creative effort to generating various high-resolution images using the technique. For those familiar with the mandelbrot technique, the size of the image region is 0.125 units, and the coordinates of the image center is (-1.15, 0.0). One main difference between the two techniques is that buddhabrot images have distinctly different appearances depending on the choice of threshold, whereas the effect of different threshold values for mandelbrot images only changes the amount of fl (unresolved) pixels. www.superliminal.com /fractals/bbrot/bbrot.htm   (1154 words)

Technique A technique is a way of efficiently accomplishing a task in a manner that is not immediately obvious or straightforward. The cut-up technique is a specialised literary form in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text. Many of these are said to free the subconscious mind by producing a creative process free of conscious control. www.jahsonic.com /Technique.html   (1143 words)

Literary technique - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Usually the author employs some general literary technique (also called a literary device) as a framework for artistic work. Author surrogate, a character who acts as the author's spokesman. The Leatherworking Handbook: A Practical Illustrated Sourcebook Of Techniques And Projects encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /literary_technique.htm   (621 words)

Contact the Alexander Trust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The F. Matthias Alexander Trust is a registered charity which was established in 1991 in order to advance the education of the general public in the Alexander Technique and to promote research and study into all aspects of the Technique. The Alexander Technique is a method of mental and physical re-education, taught individually, which has the effect of reducing unnecessary tension in all human activity. The Technique is concerned with thinking, balance and ease of movement in all activity throughout our daily lives, either at work or at play. www.alexandertrust.org.uk   (146 words)

A guide to the Alexander Technique practiced in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, by Grant Ragsdale MSTAT The Alexander Technique has been found to be beneficial for such problems as back pain, stiff shoulders, stiff neck, repetitive strain injury (rsi), tension, poor posture, anxiety, backache, arthritis, bursitis, tendonitis, stress, eyestrain, stiffness and poor balance. The Alexander Technique is popular with practitioners of such activities as dance, music, singing, acting, riding, swimming, golf and tennis - in fact, any activity where improved co-ordination is helpful. The Alexander Technique was first developed by F.M.Alexander, who was born in Tasmania in 1869 and who died in London in 1955. www.ragsdale.co.uk /hebdenbridge.htm   (348 words)

BDRS: Three Musicians Talk about the Alexander Technique   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) I think it's taken me a good ten years since finishing the training to apply the Technique to the violin, but I was up against extra problems with the violin in that I am very tall and have a very long neck. MEL: It seems to me that the Alexander technique is a very powerful technique in the long term because it gives the individual an insight into what's going on, and the means to deal with these problems for themselves. His interest in Alexander Technique came about as a result of wishing to learn more about tone production and breathing, and a realisation that greater physical effort was not the correct means of obtaining a better result in these areas. www.bdrs.org.uk /drn/1993/24/talkat.html   (4630 words)

Watercolor Technique The most basic watercolor technique is the flat wash. It is produced by first wetting the area of paper to be covered by the wash, then mixing sufficient pigment to easily fill the entire area. Glazing is a similar watercolor technique to a wash, but uses a thin, transparent pigment applied over dry existing washes. This technique is simply the process of introducing a color to a wet region of the painting and allowing it to blend bleed and feather without interruption. www.johnlovett.com /techniq.htm   (562 words)

The Alexander Technique London If you are interested in booking private lessons of the Alexander Technique in central London, or would like us to answer a query, or if you would simply like to talk to one of the Alexander teachers at the Studio, feel free to contact us directly, and we will be happy to respond to you. Senior students at the The Alexander Teacher Training School are now looking for pupils from the general public to teach as part of their final year training. Anyone interested in experiencing the Alexander Technique in London at a reduced rate, please contact us at the Alexander Studio, and we will find you a student teacher. www.alexander-technique-london.co.uk   (458 words)

BDRS: Three Musicians Conclude their Discussion of the Alexander Technique   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) MEL: This is something one could say when they ask, "Why do I need the Technique?" It's because it would never occur to the vast majority of people that thinking about their neck is something they ought to do, and even if it's suggested to them it wouldn't make any sense. I must say that one of the particular side-benefits of learning the Alexander Technique is that during particularly boring moments of a rehearsal it gives you something constructive to think about. The thing about the Technique is it gives you a constructive framework into which to put all these things. www.bdrs.org.uk /drn/1994/26/talkat3.html   (4752 words)

Ergonomics.org - Posture, Movement and Ergonomics The Alexander Technique was developed in the early 20th century before ergonomics became a recognized science and has been applied since then by people all ages and professions. The Technique can be described as a simple and practical educational method which alerts people to ways in which they are misusing their bodies, and how their everyday habits of work may be harming them. Nowhere is the interplay of ergonomic and Alexander Technique concepts better illustrated than in the design of chairs, and the ways in which we use them. www.ergonomics.org   (907 words)

The Alexander Technique   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) A description of the Alexander Technique from NASTAT From the Alexander Technique Center of Washington, D.C. A description of the Alexander Technique STAT, the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique www.life.uiuc.edu /jeff/alextech.html   (122 words)

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