Teaching Healthy Musicianship

The Music Educator's Guide to Injury Prevention and Wellness

Nancy Taylor

First book to address injury prevention both for the student and for the educator
Teaches music educators to recognize signs of common overuse injuries
Uses principles of ergonomics and body mechanics
Approaches teaching music from the standpoint of wellness.

Teaching Healthy Musicianship

The Music Educator's Guide to Injury Prevention and Wellness

Nancy Taylor

Description

Written by a professional musician who is also a certified occupational therapist, Teaching Healthy Musicianship first and foremost help music educators avoid common injuries that they themselves encounter, and in the process it also equips them with the tools they need to instill healthy musicianship practices in their students. Author Nancy Taylor combines her two unique skill sets to provide a model for injury prevention that is equally cognizant of the needs of music educators and their students. Through practical explanation of body mechanics, ergonomics, and the performance-related health problems and risk factors unique to musicianship, she gives music educators the tools they need to first practice healthy posture, body mechanics, environmental safety, and ergonomics, and then to introduce these same practices to their students.

Thoroughly illustrated with 125 photographs, this book is a key resource for preservice and inservice teachers of middle school and high school band, orchestra, choir and general music.

Teaching Healthy Musicianship

The Music Educator's Guide to Injury Prevention and Wellness

Nancy Taylor

Introduction
CHAPTER 1: Revenge Of The 42-Pound Head
CHAPTER 2: Back Wellness
CHAPTER 3: Environmental Safety In The Classroom
CHAPTER 4: Daily Ergonomics
CHAPTER 5: Ergonomics of Playing an Instrument: Sitting and Standing
CHAPTER 6: Instrumental Ergonomics: Woodwinds
CHAPTER 7: Instrumental Ergonomics: Brass
CHAPTER 8: Instrumental Ergonomics: Percussion
CHAPTER 9: Instrumental Ergonomics: Strings
CHAPTER 10: Ergonomics in Choir
CHAPTER 11: When It Hurts: The arm, wrist and hand
CHAPTER 12: When It Hurts: The Shoulder and Back
CHAPTER 13: Starting With A Stretch
CHAPTER 14: Vocal Health
CHAPTER 15: Hearing Health
CHAPTER 16: Mastering Marching Season
Index

Teaching Healthy Musicianship

The Music Educator's Guide to Injury Prevention and Wellness

Nancy Taylor

Author Information

Nancy Taylor is a professional musician, educator, and occupational therapist. In addition to teaching trumpet at University of Texas at El Paso, she is a clinician for workshops on injury treatment and prevention for musicians.

Teaching Healthy Musicianship

The Music Educator's Guide to Injury Prevention and Wellness

Nancy Taylor

Reviews and Awards

"Taylor's book is the go-to resource for music educators to find authoritative information and warm-ups/stretches with illustrations on practicing healthy musicianship for wind, percussion, string players, vocalists, and conductors!"--Dr. Shelley Jagow, Professor of Music, Wright State University

"Wonderfully clear, and engagingly presented, Taylor's book provides a practically efficient and scientifically sound guide to teaching healthy musicianship. This invaluable resource is a must-read for all who desire to prevent and/or to heal performance related pain. It should be required reading for all music educators!"--Paula Crider, Professor Emerita, University of Texas, Austin

"Taylor's book on healthy musicianship is a total asset to the field of music education, as this is an important topic that has not received enough attention. However, the best part of her work is that it has evolved from her own incredible foundation as a musician, and through her work as occupational therapist to deliver to educators the knowledge and understanding to support our students as healthy musicians."--Elizabeth Sokolowski, Associate Professor of Music Education, The University of the Arts