Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledging a Simpler Truth -- Tracing Steps -- Prologue -- The Thing Itself -- Defining the Issues and the Ideas -- Part I: The Power of the Breath -- Chapter 1 -- To Hear the Inaudible -- Chapter 2 -- The Ignorance of Breath -- Chapter 3 -- The Clairvoyant Breath: The Moment of Choice -- The Moment of Silence -- Chapter 4 -- Intention and Revelation -- Musical Will or Musical Intention? -- Chapter 5 -- Breathing Into the Vulnerable Opening that is the Soul -- The Audiational Breath -- Chapter 6 -- Understanding the Mechanics of Breathing Through Somatics: How Does Breath Come into the Body? -- Eight-handed Breathing: Understanding Inhalation and Exhalation -- The Body Mechanics of Breathing -- The Awareness of Leng T Hening and Gathering -- Chapter 7 -- Breath Defines our Interiority -- The Want to Breathe -- The Birth of Internal Spaciousness: Childhood -- Chapter 8 -- The Idea Informs the Body -- The Power within the Rest -- Rests as Respites: The Clairvoyant Opportunity -- Breathing into the Idea: The Musician's Deepest Challenge -- Chapter 9 -- The Audiational Breath -- What Is Audiation and What is its Power? -- Chapter 10 -- Breath As Initiator -- Action-reaction -- Gaining an Understanding of Breath Entrainment -- Entraining Musical Ideas -- Chapter 11 -- Where Is "In The Moment"? -- Past, Present, and Future -- Mimetic Envy that Handicaps the Breath -- Chapter 12 -- Toward A Deeper Artistry: Breath is Unto Itself -- Part II: Interpretations and Applications -- Chapter 13 -- The Conductor's Intimate Connection to Breath -- 1. Acceleration/Deceleration:A Mirror of Breath Energy and Flow -- 2. The Breath Impulse Gesture -- 3. Empathetic Constant Exhalation -- Breathing the Score:Marking the Score for Rehearsal and Performance.

The Breath Preparation -- 4. The Troughed Beat -- Chapter 14 -- Breath, the Mind/body Connector: A Classical Yoga Perspective on the Creative Process -- Mark Moliterno -- Breath and Prana -- Blockages to the Breath -- Pranayama (breath/vital-force Control) -- Three-Part Breathing -- Alternate Nostril Breathing (Channel-Balancing) -- Active Abdominal Breathing (Kapalabhati) -- Breath and Body Movement -- Bibliography -- Chapter 15 -- The Performer's Breath -- Nova Thomas -- The Psycho-Physical Connection -- The Breath Connection:New Language for Function -- Inhalation, Inspiration... Exhalation, expression -- Inhalation/Inspiration -- An Exercise to Assist the "Process" -- Animation and Inhalation -- Regarding Quantity and Quality -- Exhalation/Expression: Lock or Leap? -- The "S-Word" -- In Summary -- Bibliography -- Chapter 16 -- Qigong Practice: Balancing Energy and Gaining Awareness of Breath -- A Qigong Primer for Musicians: Cultivating Qi -- Energy Flow and Breath in Qigong -- The Pattern of Energy Flow in Qigong -- Two Paradigms for Energy Sharingor Dispersion for Musicians -- The Basic Qigong Exercise Sequence: The Twenty-Six Repetitions -- Breathing -- Tempo of the Exercises -- Starting Position and Recitation -- Exercise: Left Side Motion -- Exercise: Motion Transfer from Left to Right -- Exercise: Right Side Motion -- Exercise: Middle Motion -- Exercise: Drawing Open Motion -- Exercise: Drawing Close Motion -- Exercise: Flower Focusing Motion -- Chapter 17 -- A Final Admonition: Breathe Into The Idea -- Understanding the Power of the Breath -- The Breath is a Submissive Act -- The "Trinity" Dilemma of the Artist -- About the Authors -- Bibliography -- Symbols.