This ambitious publication draws from the knowledge and expertise of leading international figures in voice training in order to examine the history of the voice from an interdisciplinary perspective. The book explores the historical arc of various voice training disciplines and highlights significant people and events within the field. It is written by voice specialists from a variety of backgrounds, including singing, actor training, public speaking, and voice science. These contributors explore how voice pedagogy came to be, how it has organized itself as a profession, how it has dealt with challenges, and how it can develop still. Covering a variety of voice training disciplines, this book will be of interest to those studying voice and speech, as well as researchers from the fields of rhetoric, music and performance. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Voice and Speech Review journal.
In this well documented and highly readable book, James Stark provides a history of vocal pedagogy from the beginning of the bel canto tradition of solo singing in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to the present.
Intro -- Foreword -- About the Author -- Table of Contents -- Overview -- Introduction -- 1 The New Music, Vocal Art, and Physiology -- 2 Giovanni Camillo Maffei: The Beginning of Vocal Physiology -- 3 Lodovico Zacconi: The Voce Mordente -- ...
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A Systematic Approach to Voice: The Art of Studio Application is a professional resource presenting a framework for the integration of science-informed principles of voice production and pedagogical application in the training of singers.
Basics of Vocal Pedagogy is a comprehensive introductory text for vocal pedagogy classes at the college and university level. Though written primarily for prospective teachers of singing, vocal music educators,...
With sophisticated yet inexpensive sound analysis technology now widely available, more voice teachers are curious about its potential value for the studio, and are seeing the need to understand and be well-informed about the acoustics of ...
This book gathers together technical and practical wisdom from some of the world’s most well-known practicing CCM pedagogues.
For instance, when I was appointed Artistic Director of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, I knew that Santa Fe was a city famous for its art, chamber music, and opera. Thousands of people, many of them well-traveled, highly educated, ...
Style: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy conducts an in-depth investigation into the long and complex evolution of style in the study of rhetoric and writing.