Research Catalog

Title

Towards a mobile voice : minimal movements, spatialization and expression / William Weiss.

Author

Weiss, William.

Publication

Ottawa : Legas, c2006.

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Description

167 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Language, media & education studies ; 38

Uniform Title

Language, media & education studies ; 38.

Subject

• Voice culture > Exercises
• Voice culture
• Voix > Culture > Exercices
• Voix > Culture

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references: p. 167.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface -- 1. Introduction -- The minimal movement method -- Vocal training is bodily training -- Increasing degrees of freedom -- Minimal movement -- Elasticity of muscles -- Visualizing movement -- Principles of the pedagogy of minimal movement -- The slower the faster -- From the outside to the inside -- Right side or left side -- Direction : spatialization -- Reversing the breathing pattern -- The lesson plan for increasing the mobility of a body part that participates in speech production -- Lying on the floor -- Standing or sitting -- The parts of the body -- Voice training for the theatre -- Sample of a one semester voice course plan -- 2. The lower jaw -- Lesson one -- Initial awareness : lying on the floor -- Awareness in the sitting position -- Minimal movement -- Direction towards the floor -- Direction : towards the ceiling -- Direction : towards the floor and toward the ceiling -- The three cross-sections -- The front-back / up-down (sagittal) cross-section -- The right-left / up-down (coronal) cross-section -- The front-back / right-left (horizontal) cross-section -- The six exterior views -- The two lateral views : right and left -- The front and back views -- The two horizontal views : toward the ceiling and toward the floor.
• The cube -- The front face -- The right face -- The left face -- The top face -- The back face -- The bottom face -- The diagonals -- The corners -- The edges -- The faces -- Spatialize : visualize a direction while moving in another direction -- Application exercises -- 3. The tongue -- Body part : the tip of the tongue, right (or left) side -- Posture : lying on the ground -- Posture : sitting or standing -- The three cross-sections -- The sagittal cross-section : front-back / up-down -- The coronal cross-section : right-left / upward-downward -- The horizontal cross-section : front-back / right-left -- The six external views -- The two lateral views : right and left -- The front and back views -- The two horizontal view : toward the ceiling and toward the ground -- The cube -- Front face -- Right face -- Left face -- Upper face -- Back face -- Lower face -- The diagonals -- The corners -- The edges -- The faces -- Spatialize : visualize one direction while moving in the other -- Intention and articulation -- Application exercises.
• 4. The larynx -- Close the larynx : the minimal cough -- The minimal voice -- The shortest minimal voice -- The least intense minimal voice -- Horizontal topography -- Vertical topography -- Direction : downward -- Direction : upward -- Pitch -- Direction : downward -- Direction : upward -- Spatialization -- If you abused your voice -- Application exercises -- 5. The chest and the belly -- Let's examine the movements of the chest and belly -- Exhale while expanding the chest -- Displacing the volume -- The sides and the back of the thorax -- The three positions of the abdomen -- Application exercises -- 6. Resonance and voice quality -- The larynx -- Spatialization with the chest and the belly -- The three registers -- Degrees of tension : from whispering to harshness -- Application exercises -- Height of the larynx -- Application exercises -- Intrinsic height -- Application exercises -- The lips -- The upper lip -- The lower lip -- The lip postures -- Application exercises -- The labial consonants -- Application exercises.
• The upper jaw -- Application exercises -- The lower jaw -- Application exercises -- Positioning the root of the tongue -- Application exercises -- Positioning the middle of the tongue -- Application exercises -- Positions of the tip of the tongue -- Application exercises -- Nasalization, denasalization -- Application exercises -- The vowels -- The neutral vowel schwa -- The vowel chart -- Application exercises -- The consonants -- Front consonants -- Application exercises -- Back consonants -- Application exercises -- Sibilants -- Application exercises -- The head -- Right side -- Left side -- Voicing with three positions -- Application exercises -- The neck -- On all fours -- From the belly to the head -- The shout -- Spatialization of the voice -- Emotions -- Application exercises -- Actor training and mobile voice -- "Mobile voice" in the service of speech therapy and of accent improvement -- Dialects and foreign accents -- Rejuvenating your voice -- Bibliography.

ISBN

• 1894508890
• 9781894508896

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library