Polity Press, 2019. — 180 p. — ISBN: 978-1-509529-43-8. In Why Do People Sing? Paddy Scannell explores some of the mysteries at the heart of vocal communication. What explains the communicative musicality of the voices between parent and child as a baby learns to talk? Can readers of fiction hear the voices of authors and characters within soundless written texts? How has radio...
Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2019. — 124 p. — (The Study of Sound). — ISBN: 1501324616. Humming is a ubiquitous and mundane act many of us perform. The fact that we often hum to ourselves, to family members, or to close friends suggests that humming is a personal, intimate act. It can also be a powerful way in which people open up to others and share collective memories. In...
8th edition. — Prentice Hall, 2011. — 422 p. For courses in Music Theory (a two-year sequence including sight singing and ear training) as well as separate Sight Singing courses. Using an abundance of meticulously organized melodies drawn from the literature of composed music and a wide range of the world's folk music, Ottman provides the most engaging and comprehensive Sight...
Springer Netherlands, 2014. — 413 p. This volume brings together a group of leading international researchers and practitioners in voice pedagogy alongside emerging academics and practitioners. Encompassing research across voice science and pedagogy, this innovative collection transcends genre boundaries and provides new knowledge about vocal styles and approaches from...
Counterpoint , 2018. — 206 p. — ISBN10: 1640091157, 13 978-1640091153. Other people's voices, singing - the fifth essential necessity of life. Nick Coleman's new book is an exploration of what singing means and how it works. What does it do to us to listen hard and habitually to somebody else's singing? And why is the singing of others so essential to human life? Why do we love...
New York: Allworth Press, 2007. — 241 p. — ISBN: 978-1-58115-482-5. What does it take to be a musical theatre performer? What kind of training is required to do eight shows a week — acting, dancing, and singing in a wide variety of vocal styles? This insider's look into the unique demands of musical theatre performance establishes connecting links between voice training for the...
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2016. — 243 p. This is the first book about human voice that includes the physics and physiology of voice production, mathematical representations, and technology applications in a single volume by a single author from a single and novel point of view. The book expounds a novel and unified view on human voice, targeting at researchers,...
Ebook (Project Gutenberg, 2006) converted to PDF (2017), — 87 p. (A4). With bookmarks. English translation of Lilli Lehmann's "Meine Gesangkunst" by Richard Aldrich, published in 1902 by The Macmillan Company, New York/London. Cover from reprint by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (North Charleston, SC), 2016 From books.Google: This remarkable book is one of the most...
9th Edition. — Pearson, 2013. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 0205938337; ISBN13: 978-0205938339. The most engaging and musical Sight-Singing text on the market. Music for Sight Singing is structured around organized melodies drawn from the literature of composed music and a wide range of the world’s folk music. Real music exercises allow readers to practice sight singing and develop their...
Wiley, 2010. — 360 p. — ISBN13: 978-0764524752. Take your voice to the next level and grow as a performer Whether you're a beginning vocalist or a seasoned songster, Singing for Dummies makes it easy for you to achieve your songbird dreams. This practical guide gives you step-by-step instructions and lots of helpful tips, hints, vocal exercises, reminders, and warnings for both...
Berklee Press, 2012. — 104 p. Learn to improvise in jazz, pop, rock, gospel, and rhythm and blues, in this user-friendly guide to vocal improvisation. Regardless of your level of musical training, these discussions, exercises, and games will give you technical knowledge and confidence to improvise expressively and effectively, within a singing group or as a soloist. The...
Dorling Kindersley, 2006. - 432 p. ISBN: 1405312793 'Packed into every page of this book is the excitement of discovery, knowledge, taste and visual beauty. It all gives the reader the illusion of being at an actual performance' - Placido Domingo. '"Opera" is a beautiful guide for opera enthusiasts as well as the perfect welcome for converts to this ancient rite. It offers...
Journal of Music Theory Fall 2009 53(2): 191-226 Abstract The voice exchange is an elementary concept that can help solve some of tonal music’s most difficult analytical problems. Although many essays allude to the subject of voice exchanges, there have been few direct investigations of the topic. Why such an important compositional technique has remained on the analytical...