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Music for a runner鈥檚 ear
Nov. 20, 2015听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Annaka Price
For Annaka Price the ideal cadence for running is 180 steps per minute and to make sure she stays at that pace she鈥檚 creating unique music to help her stay in step. Price, who is studying for a doctorate of musical arts and also is a teaching assistant at CU-麻豆影院鈥檚 College of Music, arrived at that cadence number after injuring herself training for a marathon.听
CUT 1 听鈥淚t took me a year to learn how to run again. I read lots of material on websites and I eventually went to a class and in this class they videotaped us and gave us four different principles of good running form and one of them was cadence. (:14) For me that was the magical thing and being the good student that I am I ran with my metronome for a long time. It was a little monotonous and a lot of people laughed at me.鈥� (:24)
But for Price the goal of finding the perfect cadence for running was no laughing matter as she discovered that a cadence of 180 beats per minutes is ideal running efficiently with less chance for injury.
CUT 2 鈥淲hen you increase your cadence it more naturally facilitates a smaller step size and it also more naturally facilitates a mid-push strike. (:11) And with both of these things it allows your skeletal system to operate more efficiently and to reduce the impact from each of the steps you鈥檙e taking. So there鈥檚 less force as you hit the ground.鈥� (:24)
Except for her monotonous metronome she says there is little music she has found to match her needs. So to advance her goal a step further she has created Operation Cadence 鈥� a project where she is commissioning pieces from composers that will hit 180 beats per minute and at the same time be diverse with a broad appeal.
CUT 3 鈥淚鈥檓 working with composers from across the country to write pieces specifically at 180 beats per minute. So it鈥檚 specifically designed for running and there hasn鈥檛 been, as far as I鈥檓 aware, other classical music composed with this intention. (:16) The composers I鈥檓 working with have come from very different backgrounds. There鈥檚 some composers who are influenced by film music or jazz or dance or video games, which I think will create a very diverse and appealing playlist.鈥澨� (:31)
Price says she created Operation Cadence for two reasons that are very close to her heart.
CUT 4 鈥淯ltimately I have a desire to teach people about running form. I think a lot of people don鈥檛 run because they don鈥檛 know how and we think it鈥檚 something that should be easy because as kids we played tag or we played dodge ball and so it seems like it would be something that would be really easy. (:15) So I wanted to teach people about that while also increasing awareness for contemporary classical music because I think that鈥檚 something that鈥檚 misunderstood frequently.鈥� (:24)
Price says once the playlist is completed people will be able to purchase it on the Operation Cadence homepage where you also can now listen to a sample by composer Alan Eikins: .
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