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Book Synopsis Vocal Traditions by : Rockford Sansom
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.
Book Synopsis Songsters and Saints by : Paul Oliver
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.
Book Synopsis Vocal Traditions in Conflict by : Richard Bethell
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.
Book Synopsis Owning Our Voices by : Margaret Pikes
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.
Download or read book Versification written by Frog and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Versification describes the marriage of language and poetic form through which poetry is produced. Formal principles, such as metre, alliteration, rhyme, or parallelism, take precedence over syntax and prosody, resulting in expressions becoming organised as verse rather than prose. The aesthetic appeal of poetry is often linked to the potential for this process to seem mysterious or almost magical, not to mention the interplay of particular expressions with forms and expectations. The dynamics of versification thus draw a general interest for everyone, from enthusiasts of poetry or forms of verbal art to researchers of folklore, ethnomusicology, linguistics, literature, philology, and more. The authors of the works in the present volume explore versification from a variety of angles and in diverse cultural milieus. The focus is on metrics in practice, meaning that the authors concentrate not so much on the analysis of the metrical systems per se as on the ways that metres are used and varied in performance by individual poets and in relationship to language.
Book Synopsis Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania by : Eckehard Pistrick
Download or read book Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania written by Eckehard Pistrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration studies is an area of increasing significance in musicology as in other disciplines. How do migrants express and imagine themselves through musical practice? How does music help them to construct social imaginaries and to cope with longings and belongings? In this study of migration music in postsocialist Albania, Eckehard Pistrick identifies links between sound, space, emotionality and mobility in performance, provides new insights into the controversial relationship between sound and migration, and sheds light on the cultural effects of migration processes. Central to Pistrick?s approach is the essential role of emotionality for musical creativity which is highlighted throughout the volume: pain and longing are discussed not as a traumatising end point, but as a driving force for human action and as a source for cultural creativity. In addition, the study provides a fascinating overview about the current state of a rarely documented vocal tradition in Europe that is a part of the mosaic of Mediterranean singing traditions. It refers to the challenges imposed onto this practice by heritage politics, the dynamics of retraditionalisation and musical globalisation. In this sense the book constitutes an important study to the dynamics of postsocialism as seen from a musicological perspective.
Book Synopsis The Disciplines of Vocal Pedagogy: Towards an Holistic Approach by : Karen Sell
Download or read book The Disciplines of Vocal Pedagogy: Towards an Holistic Approach written by Karen Sell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If classical singers and vocal pedagogues are to be prepared adequately for performance, teaching and co-operation in inter-professional relations, then an holistic education entailing multi-disciplinary study is essential. In this important new book, Karen Sell examines the disciplines pertinent to vocal pedagogy, tracing the lineage of views from the ancient world to the present day. In the process important diverse roots are exposed, yielding differing and even conflicting tonal ideals which have a bearing on the consideration of different singing methods and the interpretation of songs and arias. Ethics and psychology are identified as central to the entire pedagogical process along with the scientific basis of singing: encompassing acoustics, anatomy and physiology, with special reference to the bearing of the latter two upon vocal health and hygiene. A detailed consideration of singing technique is the centrepiece of the book, and an understanding of good technique and scientific awareness is shown to be fundamental to good vocal pedagogical practice. This leads to a discussion on performance and aesthetics, contributing to the education of the fully equipped singer. No study to date has demonstrated the inter-relationships between all these individual disciplines and the ways in which they influence singing pedagogy. Sell‘s holistic, multi-disciplinary approach will be of particular benefit to singers and voice teachers, and will also appeal to music educationalists and professionals in cognate disciplines.
Book Synopsis Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities by : Christian Utz
Download or read book Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities written by Christian Utz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-04 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.
Book Synopsis Japanese Popular Music by : Carolyn S. Stevens
Download or read book Japanese Popular Music written by Carolyn S. Stevens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technology, business and production aspects, audiences, and language and culture. Based both on extensive textual and aural analysis, and on anthropological fieldwork, it provides a wealth of detail, finding differences as well as similarities between the Japanese and Western pop music scenes. Carolyn Stevens shows how Japanese popular music has responded over time to Japan's relationship to the West in the post-war era, gradually growing in independence from the political and cultural hegemonic presence of America. Similarly, the volume explores the ways in which the Japanese artist has grown in independence vis-à-vis his/her role in the production process, and examines in detail the increasingly important role of the jimusho, or the entertainment management agency, where many individual artists and music industry professionals make decisions about how the product is delivered to the public. It also discusses the connections to Japanese television, film, print and internet, thereby providing through pop music a key to understanding much of Japanese popular culture more widely.
Book Synopsis Great Singers on the Art of Singing by :
Download or read book Great Singers on the Art of Singing written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Understanding Scotland Musically by : Simon McKerrell
Download or read book Understanding Scotland Musically written by Simon McKerrell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish traditional music has been through a successful revival in the mid-twentieth century and has now entered a professionalised and public space. Devolution in the UK and the surge of political debate surrounding the independence referendum in Scotland in 2014 led to a greater scrutiny of regional and national identities within the UK, set within the wider context of cultural globalisation. This volume brings together a range of authors that sets out to explore the increasingly plural and complex notions of Scotland, as performed in and through traditional music. Traditional music has played an increasingly prominent role in the public life of Scotland, mirrored in other Anglo-American traditions. This collection principally explores this movement from historically text-bound musical authenticity towards more transient sonic identities that are blurring established musical genres and the meaning of what constitutes ‘traditional’ music today. The volume therefore provides a cohesive set of perspectives on how traditional music performs Scottishness at this crucial moment in the public life of an increasingly (dis)United Kingdom.
Book Synopsis Exploring American Folk Music by : Kip Lornell
Download or read book Exploring American Folk Music written by Kip Lornell and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect introduction to the many strains of American-made music
Book Synopsis Vocal Health and Pedagogy by : Robert Thayer Sataloff
Download or read book Vocal Health and Pedagogy written by Robert Thayer Sataloff and published by Plural Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 1017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in one convenient volume, Vocal Health and Pedagogy: Science, Assessment, and Treatment, Third Edition answers every question you've ever had about the voice, from the physics of sounds, to vocal technique, to medications, to performance anxiety. It presents anatomical, physiological, and neurological considerations, as well as covers critical issues related to patient history, laryngeal function, the physical examination, and historical perspectives of vocal pedagogy. The first part of the book introduces basic concepts of voice science, assessment, and training. It focuses on the science behind the common problems that afflict voice users and enables understanding of the medical approach to problem analysis. The second part of the book contains additional information on the specific health and performance conditions that affect the voice and their assessment and treatment. It considers the medical and nonmedical issues affecting the human voice, including diagnosis and treatment of voice problems, the effects of physical injury, posture, pollutants and irritants, psychological effects, voice therapy, medication, and more. New to this edition: New chapters on topics such as pedagogy for children, the importance of studying music, laryngeal issues involving wind instrument performance, high-speed digital imaging, the evolution of technology, pediatric voice disorders, thyroid disorders, the vocal effects of birth control medications, and autoimmune disorders.Many chapters have been extensively revised to update previous content and add new information on material such as choral pedagogy for geriatric singers, World Trade Center syndrome, and laryngeal effects of asbestos exposure.Chapters on medications for performers have been revised to delete medications no longer used frequently and to add various medications and drug classes that were not included previously, as well as information on alternative and complementary medicines.References have been updated throughout to include discussion of new studies and a review of the latest literature, while also retaining the classic literature.Includes the most recent practices and techniques, the latest information on surgical and adjunctive therapy, and important changes in criteria and strategy. Vocal Health and Pedagogy: Science, Assessment, and Treatment, Third Edition is ideal for courses in vocal pedagogy and speech-language pathology. Additionally, it is a valuable resource for professional and amateur performers and their teachers.
Book Synopsis Speaking Shakespeare by : Patsy Rodenburg
Download or read book Speaking Shakespeare written by Patsy Rodenburg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From A Midsummer Night's Dream's Puck to Othello's Desdemona, this new edition of Speaking Shakespeare gives you all the necessary tools to bring any of Shakespeare's eclectic characters to life. Patsy Rodenburg uses practical exercises and textual analysis to hone in on your dramatic resonance, breathing and placement in order to unlock your potential for playing these iconic characters. Speeches and scenes such as Mark Antony's 'O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth' and the bloody scene in which Macbeth admits to Lady Macbeth that he has 'done the deed' are placed in context and discussed in depth. Combining clear practical, textual and imaginative work with a brilliant analysis of scenes and speeches from the whole range of Shakespeare's plays, this is an essential and inspiring guide for anyone working on his plays today. It brings a renewed focus on the language of power, so frequently spoken in the worlds of politicians and company directors, which will give readers insight into the potency of clear, direct communication, specifically in the context of Shakespeare. Each chapter has been revised following the author's 20 additional years of experience as a voice coach and includes techniques necessary for a clear and convincing performance.
Book Synopsis The Question of Animal Culture by : Kevin N. Laland
Download or read book The Question of Animal Culture written by Kevin N. Laland and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago, a troop of Japanese macaques was observed washing sandy sweet potatoes in a stream, sending ripples through the fields of ethology, comparative psychology, and cultural anthropology. The issue of animal culture has been hotly debated ever since. Now Kevin Laland and Bennett Galef have gathered key voices in the often rancorous debate to summarize the views along the continuum from “Culture? Of course!” to “Culture? Of course not!” The result is essential reading for anyone interested in the validity of animal culture, and what it might say about our own.
Book Synopsis The Male Voice Glee Book by : William Oscar Perkins
Download or read book The Male Voice Glee Book written by William Oscar Perkins and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular by :
Download or read book The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
