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Singing with your own voice : a practical guide to awakening and developing the hidden qualities in your own singing voice
- Title
- Singing with your own voice : a practical guide to awakening and developing the hidden qualities in your own singing voice / Orlanda Cook.
- Author
- Cook, Orlanda, 1941-2001.
- Publication
- London, England : Nick Hern Books ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2004.
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Details
- Description
- 224 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Overview: Singing with Your Own Voice is a comprehensive, practical, and encouraging book full of exercises and tips for anyone who wants to - even needs to - sing. Actors in straight plays, performers in musicals, professionals and amateurs, even people singing in choirs or bands will all benefit from Orlanda Cook's expert guidance. Cook lays bare basic truths about singing. We are born "noisy"--Singing is part of what human animals do. Yet often we are inhibited as singers because we worry that we aren't "doing it right" or "creating the right sound." Cook shows that the breadth and potential of the human voice isn't about proper models at all - there can't be an ideal voice - but about integrating the mind, heart, and body of the singer. Her goal is to instill in her student-reader a belief in the power of the voice as a unique expressive tool. Singing, finally, should be what Cook calls "the noise of true emotion." This is a hands-on book, full of techniques and exercises, designed to give you the skill you need to sing with your own voice.
- Series Statement
- Theatre Arts books
- Uniform Title
- Theatre Arts book.
- Alternative Title
- Practical guide to awakening and developing the hidden qualities in your own singing voice
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- self-instructional materials.
- programmed textbooks.
- Programmed instructional materials.
- Methods (Music) – Self-instruction.
- Matériel d'enseignement programmé.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue -- Part 1: Voice: Mind And Heart: -- Singing who we are -- Natural voice -- First voices -- Singing voice -- Individual voice -- Gold in the cracks -- Summary of part one -- Before You Continue: -- Guide to the practical chapters -- Part 2: Voice: Mind, Heart And Body: -- Activating the body -- Power base for the voice -- PVE, laughter and the jaw -- Body made for breathing -- Magic cords -- Summary of part two -- Part 3: Voice: Mind, Heart, Body And Sound: -- Vibration and resonance -- Harmonics of sound -- Singing in tune -- Working with a piano -- Facing the music -- Shaping the sounds of speech -- Summary of part three -- Part 4: Voice: Mind, Heart, Body, Sound And Imagination: -- Freeing the imagination -- Characters in and for the voice -- Animal arias -- Whole voice-broken sound -- Summary of part four -- Part 5: Voice: Mind, Heart, Body, Sound And Imagination Into Song: -- Creative voice -- Facing the music 2 -- Song-learning checklist -- Summary of part five -- Part 6: Singer And The Song: -- Facing the audience -- Working with supportive group feedback -- Ten short voice stories -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index of exercises.
- ISBN
- 0878301828
- 9780878301829
- 1854596128
- 9781854596123
- LCCN
- 2004478189
- OCLC
- ocm57183255
- 57183255
- SCSB-1397481
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library