Music
Special Topics in Music
Use keywords in our online catalog to find ebooks, books, or videos about music. You can use the following links to find books, videos, and other materials on special music topics in the Library's collection. Of course, this is just a selection. There are many more topics covered in our collection. The following topics will also include items owned by other academic libraries in the Pacific Northwest that you can borrow using our Summit borrowing service.
Search for Videos
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The Library has a large collection of documentaries and arts videos on its Kanopy platform. You can search for music keywords or names of musical works and see what you find. You can also search for videos in the Library's catalog. We have several other streaming video collections that you can access through there. |
Online Books to Help with Performance Anxiety
To read one of the ebooks below, click on the link, then click on the name of the collection under where it says "Full text availability."
Indirect Procedures: A Musician's Guide to the Alexander TechniqueA musician's life is filled with many stressful situations: passing auditions, rehearsing and performing with difficult partners, sitting for long hours in uncomfortable chairs, going on stage to face audiences large and small, who may or may not be receptive to the performances they are being presented. Indirect Procedures will guide you around these obstacles and along that path to becoming a balanced and successful musician.
Integrated Practice: Coordination, Rhythm & SoundTo be a musician is to "speak music." When you have something to say and the means to say it, your gestures and sounds become both meaningful and free. Offering an innovative, comprehensive approach to musicians' health and wellbeing, Integrated Practice gives you the tools to combine total-body awareness with a deep and practical understanding of the rhythmic structure of the musical language, so that you can use the musical text itself as your guide toward psychophysical and creative freedom.
The Musician's Breath: The Role of Breathing in Human ExpressionExamining breath in its role as the “delivery system” for ideas in musical performance, this provocative book makes a compelling case for the power of submitting oneself to its miracles.
Performance Anxiety Strategies: A Musician's Guide to Managing Stage FrightPresents relevant and noteworthy research and insight into some of the most popular and many lesser-known holistic, exposure, cognitive, and behavioral therapies and medical treatments for music performance anxiety.
Performance Success: Performing Your Best under Pressure.Teaches a set of skills so that a musician can be ready to go out and sing or play at his or her highest level, working with energies that might otherwise be wasted in unproductive ways. This is a book of skills and exercises, prepared by a master teacher.
Yoga in the Music StudioThe ancient practice of yoga, which has exploded in popularity in the United States over the past two decades, has the potential to help music students learn to practice more mindfully and reach peak performance more quickly. This book explores how professional musicians and music teachers of all instruments and levels can use yoga postures and breath work to enhance artistry.
