Vocal Traditions

Author : Paul Oliver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521269421
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songsters and Saints written by Paul Oliver and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-09-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Oliver rediscovers the wealth of neglected vocal traditions represented on Race records.

Author : Rockford Sansom
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000847543
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vocal Traditions written by Rockford Sansom and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vocal Traditions: Training in the Performing Arts explores the 18 most influential voice training techniques and methodologies of the past 100 years. This extensive international collection highlights historically important voice teachers, contemporary leaders in the field, and rising schools of thought. Each vocal tradition showcases its instructional perspective, offering backgrounds on the founder(s), key concepts, example exercises, and further resources. The text’s systematic approach allows a unique pedagogical evaluation of the vast voice training field, which not only includes university and conservatory training but also private session and workshop coaching as well. Covering a global range of voice training systems, this book will be of interest to those studying voice, singing, speech, and accents, as well as researchers from the fields of communication, music education, and performance. This book was originally published as a series in the Voice and Speech Review journal.

Author : Albert Bernhard Bach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Education and Vocal Culture for Vocalists and Teachers of Singing written by Albert Bernhard Bach and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Irene Bergheim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in global vocal traditions written by Irene Bergheim and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminaret Muntlig tradering i vokal folkemusikk som ble gjennomført 2.-3. mars 2006 ved Institutt for musikk, NTNU, Trondheim, samlet ca. 30 deltakere fra Norge, Sverige, Finland, Irland og Tyskland. Deltakerne som hadde innlegg på seminaret ble invitert til å skrive artikler om sine emner, og resultatet foreligger her. Et utdrag fra Unni Løvlids konsertforedrag finnes på vedlagte CD-plate.

Author : Margaret Pikes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042965751X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Owning Our Voices written by Margaret Pikes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owning Our Voices offers a unique, first-hand account of working within the Wolfsohn-Hart tradition of extended voice work by Margaret Pikes, an acclaimed voice teacher and founder member of the Roy Hart Theatre. This dynamic publication fuses Pikes’ personal account of her own vocal journey as a woman within this, at times, male-dominated tradition, alongside an overview of her particular pedagogical approach to voice work, and is accompanied by digital footage of Pikes at work in the studio with artist-collaborators and written descriptions of scenarios for teaching. For the first time, Margaret Pikes’ uniquely holistic approach to developing the expressive voice through sounding, speech, song and movement has been documented in text and on film, offering readers an introduction to both the philosophy and the practice of Wolfsohn-Hart voice work. Owning Our Voices is a vital book for scholars and students of voice studies and practitioners of vocal performance: it represents a synthesis of a life’s work exploring the expressive potential of the human voice, illuminating an important lineage of vocal training, which remains influential to this day.

Author : Alfred Daniell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Remarks on Certain Vocal Traditions in Wales written by Alfred Daniell and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Tonelli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429802978
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices Found written by Chris Tonelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing contributes to a wave of voice studies scholarship with the first book-length study of free jazz voice. It pieces together a history of free jazz voice that spans from sound poetry and scat in the 1950s to the more recent wave of free jazz choirs. The author traces the developments and offers a theory, derived from interviews with many of the most important singers in the history of free jazz voice, of how listeners have experienced and evaluated the often unconventional vocal sounds these vocalists employed. This theory explains that even audiences willing to enjoy harsh sounds from saxophones or guitars often resist when voices make sounds that audiences understand as not-human. Experimental poetry and scat were combined and transformed in free jazz spaces in the 1960s and 1970s by vocalists like Yoko Ono (in solo work and her work with Ornette Coleman and John Stevens), Jeanne Lee (in her solo work and her work with Archie Shepp and Gunter Hampel), Leon Thomas (in his solo work as well as his work with Pharoah Sanders and Carlos Santana), and Phil Minton and Maggie Nicols (who devoted much of their energy to creating unaccompanied free jazz vocal music). By studying free jazz voice we can learn important lessons about what we expect from the voice and what happens when those expectations are violated. This book doesn't only trace histories of free jazz voice, it makes an attempt to understand why this story hasn't been told before, with an impressive breadth of scope in terms of the artists covered, drawing on research from the US, Canada, Wales, Scotland, France, The Netherlands, and Japan.

Author : Richard Bethell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912271498
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vocal Traditions in Conflict written by Richard Bethell and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I outline what my book is about in the form of a brief homily. My text: 'Music must, somehow or other, reflect the manners and fancies of its birth-time and birth-place, --and also the conditions of executive art ... I believe that thoughtful science, not shrinking from retrospect, not averse to discovery, will increasingly refer to Record, not to Tradition, --will increasingly separate that which is of the hour, from that which does not pass away. The "players" have had their riot: --the orchestra and its combinations have been driven into that prominence and perfection to which extravagance and corruption may be the inevitable sequel. The turn of the singers may be again to come.' Henry Chorley, 1862 Dear Reader, Chorley's prediction that commentators will focus more on Record than on Tradition has indeed come to pass, with increasing emphasis on Historically Informed Practice. But, it's apparent that reference to 'Record' is currently limited to instrumental music, with the orchestra continuing to 'have its riot'. Historical keyboards, string, wind and brass artefacts have been revived. The recorder, viol, cornett, lute, harpsichord and other instruments (viewed a century ago as 'antique') are being reconstructed and expertly performed once more, thereby 'reflecting the manners and fancies of music's birth-time', but (so far) absent the 'inevitable sequel' of extravagance and corruption. Unfortunately, vocal performance is still ruled by tradition. Most classical vocalists remain wedded to the traditional opera house sound. Few attempts have been made by institutions to adopt the teachings of Pierfrancesco Tosi, Giambattista Mancini and Richard Mackenzie Bacon, as set down during the long 18th century. The book explores the historic record of vocal sound in detail. Besides treatise writers, I cite reviews by Johann Quantz, Wolfgang Mozart, Charles Burney, Richard Edgcumbe, Gioacchino Rossini and Henry Chorley himself, plus many others. You will find comprehensive appraisals of over 135 historic vocalists, describing the voices of some 24 castrati, 46 other males and 65 females, often appearing in print for the first time. I track in detail the changes from straight voice, registral extension and soft high notes, as expected from singers in 1830, to continuous vibrato, loud singing from the chest on high notes, plummy/ throaty emission and suppression of falsetto singing, which had become the expected norms for most opera and concert singers by 1920. But one recent development would have pleased Rossini, who was unhappy with the deterioration in vocalism already evident to him during the 1850s. I refer to the work of some pop and folk singers, plus a small handful of classical artists, who are discovering for themselves the beauties of long 18th century bel canto, as evidenced by my playlists featuring over 100 soloists plus ensembles. This suggests that 'the turn of the singers may be again to come'. For other useful information, including definitions as well as playlists, see my website CAMREALS (Campaign for Real Singing) at www.camreals.com.

Author : Christian Utz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415502241
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities written by Christian Utz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural identity in 20th- and 21st-century music in both East Asian and Western music. The authors approach musical meaning in specific case studies against the background of general trends of cultural globalization and the construction/deconstruction of identity produced by human (and artificial) voices. The essays proceed from different angles, notably sociocultural and historical contexts, philosophical and literary aesthetics, vocal technique, analysis of vocal microstructures, text/phonetics-music-relationships, historical vocal sources or models for contemporary art and pop music, and areas of conflict between vocalization, "ethnicity," and cultural identity. They pinpoint crucial topical features that have shaped identity-discourses in art and popular musical situations since the1950s, with a special focus on the past two decades. The volume thus offers a unique compilation of texts on the human voice in a period of heightened cultural globalization by utilizing systematic methodological research and firsthand accounts on compositional practice by current Asian and Western authors.

Author : Janet B. Rodgers
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879103682
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acting and Singing with Archetypes written by Janet B. Rodgers and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mother, the Lover, the Trickster, the Spiritual and Temporal Leader, the Devil-these are just some of the universal essences, known as archetypes, that lie deep within the human spirit; these are forces that we all recognize and embody in some capacity. Acting and Singing with Archetypes is a groundbreaking, experiential book that uses archetypes as the basis of an unprecedented method of study for actors and singers. By using fifteen archetype explorations that employ vocal exercises, mask making, monologue and scene work, breathing exercises, role playing, storytelling, singing, meditation, self-reflection, and more, this book empowers actors to interpret character and voice in exciting, untraditional ways. The explorations ultimately leave performing artists with the tools they need to develop their theatrical roles to the fullest, utilize their singing and speech abilities with the widest range of emotion, and unlock their overall creative potential. The book also reinforces the importance of breathing, relaxing, stretching, and other physical techniques that enable healthy practice of the craft. Geared toward theatre teachers, directors, and theatre workshop leaders, this is an incredible teaching tool, accompanied by a CD of demonstrative recordings of vocal exercises and other guiding content sung and spoken by authors Janet B. Rodgers and Frankie Armstrong. Book jacket.