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Cello Practice, Cello Performance
What does it mean to perform expressively on the cello? In Cello Practice, Cello Performance, professor Miranda Wilson teaches that effectiveness on the concert stage or in an audition reflects the intensity, efficiency, and organization of your practice. Far from being a mysterious gift randomly bestowed on a lucky few, successful cello performance is, in fact, a learnable skill that any player can master.
Most other instructional works for cellists address techniques for each hand individually, as if their movements were independent. In Cello Practice, Cello Performance, Wilson demonstrates that the movements of the hands are vitally interdependent, supporting and empowering one another in any technical action. Original exercises in the fundamentals of cello playing include cross-lateral exercises, mindful breathing, and one of the most detailed discussions of intonation in the cello literature. Wilson translates this practice-room success to the concert hall through chapters on performance-focused practice, performance anxiety, and common interpretive challenges of cello playing.
This book is a resource for all advanced cellists—college-bound high school students, undergraduate and graduate students, educators, and professional performers—and teaches them how to be their own best teachers.
Most other instructional works for cellists address techniques for each hand individually, as if their movements were independent. In Cello Practice, Cello Performance, Wilson demonstrates that the movements of the hands are vitally interdependent, supporting and empowering one another in any technical action. Original exercises in the fundamentals of cello playing include cross-lateral exercises, mindful breathing, and one of the most detailed discussions of intonation in the cello literature. Wilson translates this practice-room success to the concert hall through chapters on performance-focused practice, performance anxiety, and common interpretive challenges of cello playing.
This book is a resource for all advanced cellists—college-bound high school students, undergraduate and graduate students, educators, and professional performers—and teaches them how to be their own best teachers.
154 pages, Paperback
First published June 16, 2015
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Miranda Wilson
5 books2 followersMiranda Wilson is a New Zealand-American cellist who has performed as a soloist and chamber musician on six continents. Author of the acclaimed books "Notes for Cellists: A Guide to the Repertoire," "Teaching Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass: Historical and Modern Pedagogical Practices" (with Dijana Ihas and Gaelen McCormick), "The Well-Tempered Cello: Life with Bach's Cello Suites," and "Cello Practice, Cello Performance," her writing creates connections between performance, pedagogy, and music history for cellists worldwide. As Professor of Cello at the University of Idaho, Artistic Director of the Idaho Bach Festival, and a longtime contributor to Strings magazine, she combines her international performing career with her love of writing, teaching, and talking about the cello.
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