- 166 pages
- English
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About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Framing the âVocal Traditionsâ Series
- 1 Cicely Berry and the Central School Tradition
- 2 Linklater Voice Method
- 3 Rodenburg Voice and Speech
- 4 Fitzmaurice Voicework
- 5 Lessac Kinesensics
- 6 Knight-Thompson Speechwork
- 7 Estill Voice TrainingÂŽ
- 8 The Roy Hart Tradition
- 9 The Sharpe/Haydn Method
- 10 Miller Voice Method
- 11 A Voice Pedagogy Based in Middendorf Breathwork
- 12 Vocal Combat Technique
- 13 Somatic Voicework⢠The LoVetri Method
- 14 Breathwork Africa
- 15 Steiner Speech
- 16 Seven Pillars Acting Technique
- 17 Vibrant Voice Technique
- 18 Acting and Singing with Archetypes
- Index