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- Title
Finding balance through support in flute performance.
- Authors
BastaniNezhad, Arya (Ali)
- Abstract
Performers rely strongly on their leg muscles and especially their feet to facilitate stability, posture, breathing, tone and other physical and musical aspects. This article examines how the key components of support and balance can be used to create a well-stabilized performer and an effortless and mature performance. This research is undertaken to explore support-balance to provide a resource for flutists. Further, this investigation will benefit pedagogues and other instrumentalists especially wind players. In this case study, information was collected through using participant observation and interviews with various musicians, especially the musical and pedagogical insights of Thomas Pinschof have been structural to this research. The core components of balance are the feet, the centre of gravity and Proprioception and these comprise the Pose Method of Performance. This is explored through a set of strategies on the efficient use of the little toes, foot, thigh muscles, centre of gravity and weight awareness to understand the support-balance underpinning that should concern all flute players. This helps to increase performers' awareness by simplification of the concepts, presenting the major warning symptoms of dysfunctional balance and improvement measurements as well as the factors increasing support and balance of performers, resulting in effortless equilibrium and stability during performance.
- Subjects
MUSICIANS; WIND instrument music; MUSCLES; FLUTE; POSTURE
- Publication
Victorian Journal of Music Education, 2012, Vol 15, Issue 1, p34
- ISSN
1036-6318
- Publication type
Article