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"Practical Exercises for Young Magicians by Amelia Popper. It's just a bunch of charts and hand movements. This isn't magic, it's stamp collecting."
Audrey Flowers[src]

Practical Exercises for Young Magicians is an instructional book written by Amelia Popper containing intricate finger and voice exercises divided into several dozen etudes arranged in order of increasing difficulty and painfulness. The book serves as the primary resource for students of Brakebills University in their education of spellcasting.

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The book consists of a series of movements that serve as educational practices and introductory techniques to the physical complexity of magic and spell casting. Popper's work has been used throughout Brakebills' curriculum as a structured, refined method to spellcasting. Along with the books written by McCabe, Livingston, and Ali, form the foundational education of magical theory taught at Brakebills University.[1]

Trivia[]

  • The book is an allusion to David Popper's "High School of Cello Playing".[2]

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