The Breathing Book for Flute by Amy Likar is appropriate for college through professional flute players.

To breathe well means to breathe free from overwork. Easy, coordinated breathing occurs when you move in cooperation with how you are built. If you understand the structures and movement of breathing, you will move freely, and your sound will be resonant. If your movement is awkward and you use unnecessary tension, your sound will be full of tension, and your resonance will suffer. The Breathing Book contains information about breathing and activities designed to help you use the knowledge in musically meaningful ways. The Breathing Book is not an exercise book—it's a "learn how to move" book and includes videos for some of the chapters and movements to clarify the content. The Breathing Book explores all the individual movements of breathing and, in the end, will help you coalesce them into a singular, well-coordinated, and organic motion.

“'The Breathing Book' takes the mystery out of what we need to be aware of as we breathe and perform in everyday living and as flutists. This book gives me the tools to review and explore my breathing in clear and concise ways that I’ve never experienced before. A must read for any student or teacher of any instrument.” - Jeffery Zook, Flute and Piccolo, Detroit Symphony Orchestra (retired), Flute Teacher, Oakland University

42 pages, spiral bound to lay flat on the music stand

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