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Title: Teaching Piano for Beginners
Publisher: Liszt Academy, Budapest
Language: With explanatory booklet in English and Hungarian
Price: 4000 HUF

Dr. Orsolya Szabó:

Music is Your Body: So-System

Price: 4000 HUF

"I recommend this film to musicians who want to speak and express the language of music just like their mother tongues. It is a Guide to Freedom of Artistic Expression.
Hungarian musicians are extremely fortunate being nurtured by the world famous music pedagogical philosophy and practice of Zoltán Kodály.
One of his basic tools of learning and understanding music easily by developing the inner-hearing ability is the so called: relative solfa system.
This brilliant simplicity gave the idea to establish another relative system which analyses all the movements that the music itself does and also analyses all kinds of movements that the musician has to do while performing.
This new music pedagogical method is called: RELATIVE MOVEMENT SYSTEM, briefly SO-SYSTEM."

Dr. Zsuzsa Pásztor:

Exercise breaks for music sessions

Price: 4000 HUF

About the DVD:

According to statistics published in Hungary and abroad, some 50-80 percent of pupils and adults who play music suffer occupational injuries in the course of their work, mainly affecting the motor system and the nervous system. This percentage increases proportionately to the number of years spent pursuing a musical career. One of the main causes of the occupational injuries is that young people and adults who play music are unaware of the occupational hazards and the methods of prevention, because to this day such skills are taught in only a few places. One of the most fundamental aspects of protecting against occupational injury is the proper dosing of practice time. The organs, tissues and cells that are worked in the course of long practise sessions and marathon rehearsals become exhausted, leading first to functional and then to structural changes. Deep fatigue that dulls the music, and strains, can be avoided with the right work schedule. Practice should be divided up into short sessions, and before each session a few refreshing exercises should be performed, to relieve nervous tension and relax the weary organs. This film gives a brief taste of the rich repertoire of exercise breaks suited to various fields of musical practice, from the level of the beginner to that of the professional artist, in real everyday situations, music lessons, rehearsals, practice sessions and public performances.