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Article: Voice and the Alexander Technique: Active Explorations for Speaking and Singing (w/CD)
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- American Music Teacher
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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Voice and the Alexander Technique: Active Explorations for Speaking and Singing (w/CD), by Jane Heirich, Mornum Time Press (381 Bush St., Ste., 500, San Francisco, CA 94104). 171 pp. $49.95.
Many books have been written about the art and the science of singing. Most of them follow the medical model, that is, they deal with the actual physiology of making vocal sound. And there is no shortage of written material about the Alexander Technique-the remarkable method of aligning the body for maximum physical efficiency in any endeavor, be it singing, playing tennis, washing dishes or whatever-formulated by the Tasmanian Shakespearean actor F. M. Alexander in the late-19th century. But Jane Ruby ...