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The Application of the Kinesthetic Sense: An Introduction of Body Awareness in Cello Pedagogy and Performance

Carpinteyro-Lara, Gustavo
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396454237

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2014, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music: Violoncello.
This document on cello pedagogy and playing focuses on the importance of the kinesthetic sense as it relates to teaching and performance quality. William Conable, creator of body mapping, has described how the kinesthetic sense or movement sense provides information about the body’s position and size, and whether the body is moving and, if so, where and how. In addition Craig Williamson, pioneer of Somatic Integration, claims that the kinesthetic sense enables one to sense what the body is doing at any time, including muscular effort, tension, relaxation, balance, spatial orientation, distance, and proportion. Cellists can develop and awaken the kinesthetic sense in order to have conscious body awareness, and to understand that cello playing is a physical, aerobic, intellectual, and musical activity. This document describes the physical, motion, aerobic, anatomic, and kinesthetic approach to cello playing and is supported by somatic education methods, such as the Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method, and Yoga. By applying body awareness and kinesthesia in cello playing, cellists can have freedom, balance, ease in their movements, and an intelligent way of playing and performing.
Lee Fiser (Committee Chair)
David Adams, M.M. (Committee Member)
bruce mcclung, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Performing Arts
Kinesthetic Sense; Body Awareness; Cello Pedagogy and Performance; Cello Teaching and Playing; Kinesthesia

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  • Carpinteyro-Lara, G. (2014). The Application of the Kinesthetic Sense: An Introduction of Body Awareness in Cello Pedagogy and Performance [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396454237

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Carpinteyro-Lara, Gustavo. The Application of the Kinesthetic Sense: An Introduction of Body Awareness in Cello Pedagogy and Performance. 2014. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396454237.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Carpinteyro-Lara, Gustavo. "The Application of the Kinesthetic Sense: An Introduction of Body Awareness in Cello Pedagogy and Performance." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396454237

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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