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Books on Music Performance and the Feldenkrais Method

Jillian Beacon - CA

Beacon, Jillian. Investigating PCA Based Techniques for Objectively Measuring the Impact of the Feldenkrais Method on Pianists' Coordination Characteristics. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Ottawa, 2024

Jillian Beacon - CA

Beacon, Jillian. Assessing 2D and 3D Motion Tracking Technologies for Measuring the Immediate Impact of Feldenkrais Training on the Playing Postures of Pianists. MA Thesis, University of Ottawa, 2015.

Jillian Beacon, Gilles Comeau, and Donald Russell - CA

“The Feldenkrais Method for Musicians: Addressing the Need for Objective Measurements.” In The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice: Dance, Music, and Theater, edited by Robert Sholl. London: Methuen Drama - Bloomsbury Publishing Pic, 2022.

Jillian Beacon, Gilles Comeau, and Donald Russell - CA

“Gaining Insight on the Impact of Feldenkrais Functional Integration in the Context of Piano Playing: Considerations for Measuring Posture and Movement Quality.” In The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice: Dance, Music, and Theater, edited by Robert Sholl. London: Methuen Drama - Bloomsbury Publishing Pic, 2022.

Simone Dalla Bella - CA

“Music and Brain Plasticity.” The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology. Edited by Ian Cross, Michael Thaut, and Susan Hallam. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2016. pp. 325-42. ISBN: 9780191034459.

While this is not about Feldenkrais Method, it is very relevant.

Lisa M Burrell - US

“Building a Model for Injury Prevention in Music Pedagogy Rooted in Feldenkrais’s Philosophy and Methodology for Learning.” In The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice: Dance, Music, and Theater, edited by Robert Sholl. London: Methuen Drama -Bloomsbury Publishing Pic, 2022.

Marcia Carr - UK

“Tuning the Body: Acting, Dancing and Singing from Rehearsal to Performance.” In The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice: Dance, Music, and Theater, edited by Robert Sholl. London: Methuen Drama - Bloomsbury Publishing Pic, 2022.

Corinna Eikmeier - DE

“Improvisieren Mit Einem Improvisierenden Körper | Improvisation with the Improvising Body.” In Improvisation Erforschen - Improvisierend Forschen / Researching Improvisation - Researching by Improvisation: Beiträge Zur Exploration Musikalischer Improvisation / Essays About the Exploration of Musical Improvisation, edited by Reinhard Gagel and Matthias Schwabe, 1st ed., 181–201. transcript Verlag, 2016.

Corinna Eikmeier - DE

Monograph: Eikmeier, Corinna. Ungewohnte Positionen: Ein Praktischer Beitrag Zur Anwendung Der Feldenkrais-Methode in Der Musikalischen Improvisation. Muth, B, 2010. 

A practical contribution to applying the Feldenkrais Method to musical improvisation.

Alan Fraser - US

“Mapping Body Awareness Onto Piano Performance for Artistic Rejuvenation.” In The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice: Dance, Music, and Theater, edited by Robert Sholl. London: Methuen Drama - Bloomsbury Publishing Pic, 2022.

Alan Fraser - US

Playing the Piano With Your Whole Self. Novi Sad: Piano Somatics Press. 2021.

Alan Fraser -US

Honing the Pianistic Self-Image: Skeletal-Based Piano Technique. Novi Sad, Serbia: Piano Somatics Press, 2010.

Alan Fraser - US

All Thumbs: Well-Coordinated Piano Technique. Novi Sad: Maple Grove Music, 2012.

Alan Fraser - US

The Craft of Piano Playing. Novi Sad: Serbia: Piano Somatics Press, 2011.

Stephen J. Grant - US

Vocal Pedagogy and the Feldenkrais Method. In Teaching Singing in the 21st Century, edited by Scott D. Harrison, Jessica O’Bryan. Springer, 2014.

Campbell Alexander Kingswood Kelly - AU

The Feldenkrais Method in Practice and Performance at the Piano. Thesis, Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, 2019-2022.

Samuel H. Nelson, Elizabeth L. Blades - US

Singing with Your Whole Self: The Feldenkrais Method and Voice. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

Samuel H. Nelson, Elizabeth L. Blades - US

The Feldenkrais Method for Instrumentalists: A Guide to Awareness Through Movement. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.

Robert Sholl - UK

“Towards an Ability Studies.” In The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice: Dance, Music and Theatre, edited by Robert Sholl. London: Methuen Drama - Bloomsbury Publishing Pic, 2022.

Robert Sholl - UK

Chapter: “Feldenkrais, Freud, Lacan and Gould: How to Love thyself for Thy Neighbor.” In The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice: Dance, Music, and Theater, edited by Robert Sholl. London:Methuen Drama - Bloomsbury Publishing Pic, 2022.

Robert Sholl - UK

Editor, The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice: Dance, Music, and Theater. London: Methuen Drama - Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

Robert Sholl - UK

The Feldenkrais Method. New Vistas, University of West London, 3, no. 1, 2017. 

Alexandra E. Toenniges - US

Thesis. “The Feldenkrais method in music : a practical, awareness-based approach to recital preparation.”  , May 6, 2017.


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