Deepening Musical Performance Through Movement

Reviews / Votes

"This book is not only a wonderful resource for therapists, musicians and music teachers, but also . . . a well-researched academic work.Vol. 37.2 June 2009"-Carolyn Pike, University of North Texas
"From this [book] . . . we receive these two gifts . . . a compostional repertoire distinct in imaginative focus and a pedagogy with wide application to music making and full of implications for research.Issue 10 Fall 2008"-David Lidov, The Open Space Magazine
"Whether you teach private or group instrumental or vocal lessons, music theory, composition, music therapy or music appreciation, you will find a wealth of ideas to use with your students."-American Music Teacher
"This book brings all aspects of music to life via kinesthetic understanding. . . . Pierce's extensive research is obvious, but though the book assumes considerable knowledge of the discipline, personal anecdotes and musical references render it relatively easy to digest."-Choice
"Because of her varied and extensive experience as a movement specialist, theorist, performer, teacher, and composer, Pierce is an unusually effective and articulate advocate for an embodied musical understanding . . . While performers probably have readier access to this kind of connection with a piece of music, Pierce's impressive achievement is to provide an effective way for theorists, too, to develop and deepen their embodied connection with the music that they analyze."-MUSIC THEORY SPECTRUM
"The book is wonderful . . . My hope is that the book will be a doorway for many more musicians and music lovers into an exploration of the world of movement as a tool for musical growth, both as performer and listener."-Music Theory Online
"[This] book is expressively written and brimming with imaginative ideas. It is not a book to read while sitting still!"-Journal of the International Alliance of Women in Music
"Under the impetus of early influences as diverse as the Alexander technique, Rolfing, Schenkerian analysis and Stanislavski's Method acting. . . pianist, composer and music educator Alexandra Pierce has crystallized in this book a finely etched, lifetime quest to articulate the connection between the elements of music and the art of interpretation, through the prism of 'movement response to the music'.May 2009"-American String Teacher