Coffin's Sounds of Singing

Coffin's Sounds of Singing PDF Author: Berton Coffin
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 1461657547
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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This essential foundation for teaching vocal technique is now available in paperback! Based on the great teaching of the past, it explains the utilization of principles and applications of vocal techniques. The Chromatic Vowel Chart defines the vowel color changes in chromatic progressions for all voices, and the text explains how singing principles can be used by relying on the ear, the eye, and the sense of vibration in the body. Cloth edition [0-8108-1933-3] published in 1987. Paperback edition available April 2002.

Coffin's Sounds of Singing

Coffin's Sounds of Singing PDF Author: Berton Coffin
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 1461657547
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Book Description
This essential foundation for teaching vocal technique is now available in paperback! Based on the great teaching of the past, it explains the utilization of principles and applications of vocal techniques. The Chromatic Vowel Chart defines the vowel color changes in chromatic progressions for all voices, and the text explains how singing principles can be used by relying on the ear, the eye, and the sense of vibration in the body. Cloth edition [0-8108-1933-3] published in 1987. Paperback edition available April 2002.

Coffin's Overtones of Bel Canto

Coffin's Overtones of Bel Canto PDF Author: Berton Coffin
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 1461657539
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Presents in acoustic phonetics, register and musical notation, many exercises that will make the voice stronger and more musical according to the precepts of Bel Canto.

Coffin Sounds of Sing No Vowel

Coffin Sounds of Sing No Vowel PDF Author: Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780810820838
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Phonetic Readings of Songs and Arias

Phonetic Readings of Songs and Arias PDF Author: Berton Coffin
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810815339
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Since the publication of the first edition in 1964, Phonetic Readings of Songs and Arias has served singers, teachers of singing, and students of lyric diction as a guide to the correct pronunciation of songs in foreign languages.

Singing

Singing PDF Author: Dan H. Marek
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 1461671183
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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This invaluable text breaks down complicated singing concepts with 64 specific vocal exercises designed to overcome faults and to develop vocal virtuosity. Drawings, musical examples, anatomical illustrations, and copious photographs of opera stars are also included.

Historical Vocal Pedagogy Classics

Historical Vocal Pedagogy Classics PDF Author: Berton Coffin
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810844125
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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This paperbound reprint of a 1989 work for teachers of singing, performing singers, and vocal pedagogy students presents the insights of great teachers from the past--insights that have been lost or diluted over the years and which the author believes to be important to the art of teaching. In 18 chapters, Berton (emeritus, music, Colorado College) discusses the writings of Tosi, Garcia, Stockhausen, Sedie, Seiler, Lamperti, Shakespeare, Witherspoon, Lilli Lehmann, Byers, and Johnstone-Douglas. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Rest Is Noise

The Rest Is Noise PDF Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429932880
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

The Functional Unity of the Singing Voice

The Functional Unity of the Singing Voice PDF Author: Barbara Doscher
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810827085
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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Describes the anatomy and physiology of breathing and phonation and examines the acoustical laws necessary for an understanding of resonation. Extensive bibliography.

Prescriptions for Choral Excellence

Prescriptions for Choral Excellence PDF Author: Shirlee Emmons
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195182421
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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Presents research in voice science, and leadership and performance psychology. This volume addresses the topics relevant to choirs, and provides instruction on how to apply the concepts in day-to-day rehearsal and performance.

Giovanni Battista Rubini and the Bel Canto Tenors

Giovanni Battista Rubini and the Bel Canto Tenors PDF Author: Dan H. Marek
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810886685
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 439

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Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794-1854) was a legendary tenor and the first 19th-century non-castrati male singer to become an international star of opera. The previous two centuries had been the era of the castrati, with tenors and basses relegated to character and supporting roles in the operas of their time. Rubini stood apart because he not only matched the castrati in coloratura and pathos, but he also had an extraordinarily high voice. With Rubini’s rise, and in his wake, several tenors came to sing roles written specifically for them by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and many other lesser-known bel canto composers. Signaling the end of the dominance of castrati on stage, this period would last some 40 years until the advent of Grand Opera, Wagner, and Verdi and the appearance of the first so-called High C from the chest by Gilbert-Louis Duprez in 1837. Since then, the accepted tenor sound has followed the tradition epitomized by Enrico Caruso and, in our own era, Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo. Many composers, conductor, and performers would come to regard bel canto dramatic operas as decorative and vapid until Maria Callas and Tulio Serafin demonstrated the heights this genre of opera could reach. However, opera directors and opera performers of late who have expressed an interest in reviving selected masterpieces from the bel canto tradition have found themselves confronted with the problem of locating tenors versed in the vocal techniques necessary to carry the high tessituras. In Giovanni Battista Rubini and the Bel Canto Tenors: History and Technique, Dan H. Marek explores the extraordinary life of Rubini in order to frame this special period in the history of opera and connect the technique of the castrati who were among Rubini’s instructors. Drawing on the work of Berton Coffin, Marek offers long-sought answers to the challenges presented by high tessitura of bel canto operas for tenors. To further assist working singers, Giovanni Battista Rubini and the Bel Canto Tenors includes over 60 pages of exercises written by Rubini himself before 1840, which Marek, for the first time ever has adapted to acoustical phonetics. Professional singers, teachers and their students, vocal coaches, and opera conductors will find this work indispensable as the only English-language work on high tessitura for tenor and soprano singing.