Voice category: 284 books
Songs of the Second Viennese School
A Performer's Guide to Selected Solo Vocal Works
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
In Songs of the Second Viennese School: A Performer’s Guide to Selected Solo Vocal Works, scholar Loralee Songer outlines for singers and voice teachers critical information on selected solo vocal works by three major classical composers active during the first half of the twentieth century: Arnold...
Popular Singing and Style
2nd edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This second edition of the highly successful Popular Singing serves as a practical guide to exploring the singing voice while helping to enhance vocal confidence in a range of popular styles. The book provides effective alternatives to traditional voice training methods, and demonstrates how these...
So You Want to Sing CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music)
A Guide for Performers
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
So You Want to Sing CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music) presents a compendium of approaches to non-classical singing with an emphasis on vocal technique and function. Over the past twenty years, approaches to singing CCM have exploded, resulting in many schools of technique. So You Want to Sing CCM...
The Broadway Song
A Singer's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Truly powerful vocal performance in musical theater is more than just the sum of good vocal tone and correct notes. As experienced teacher, director, and performer Mark Ross Clark lays out in The Broadway Song, powerful performance communicates the central function of a song within the context of...
Songs for Young Singers
An Annotated List for Developing Voices
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
Each year as high school solo and ensemble festivals approach, choir directors and voice teachers search for the right songs for their students to sing. There is so much music available for young developing voices, but how can an overworked teacher keep track of it all?
Songs for Young Singers,...
Giovanni Battista Rubini and the Bel Canto Tenors
History and Technique
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
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...
The Singer's Ego
Finding Balance Between Music and Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
From the psychological to the practical, the serious challenges and issues that can affect a singer’s performance are explored in this groundbreaking book. Author Lynn Eustis, herself a professional signer and voice instructor, argues that the daily psychological conflicts that make up a singer’s...
by Victoria Etnier Villamil
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
New in Paperback 2004.
Probably the most comprehensive work on the American art song ever available, this book considers the lives and contributions of 144 significant composers in the field, including many for whom information has been extremely scarce. Most composers' entries consist of a biographical...
Rock Singing Lessons for Beginners
Teach Yourself How to Sing (Free Audio Available)
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Teach yourself how to sing with our easy rock singing lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is sung by a teacher, then sing along.***"I’ve always loved singing, but needed some direction…. this book helped me not only improve...
by Mauro Banfi
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
A book dedicated to students and professional singers interested in a funcional perspective of the daily practice of singing.
It rediscovers the often forgotten micro mobilities of the body, which are very useful for artists, by not considering posture as a static concept.
It is not a manual of vocal...
Master Singers
Advice from the Stage
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
There is often a dichotomy between the academic approach to singing that voice students learn in the studio and what professional singers do on the operatic and concert stage. Great singers at the top of the performing profession achieve their place with much analysis and awareness of their technique,...
Staging Scenes from the Operas of Donizetti and Verdi
A Guide for Directors and Performers
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
In Staging Scenes from the Operas of Donizetti and Verdi, veteran opera director William Ferrarapresents a detailed, practical exploration of the staging of twenty-one scenes from two of opera’s most beloved composers. He brings to life Donizetti’s delightful comedies, L’Elisir d’amore and...
by Luisa Tetrazzini
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Originally published in London 1923, this book contains a detailed work on the art of singing. Anyone possessing a voice and the inclination to sing, either for pleasure or profit, will benefit enormously from putting these suggestions into practice. Many of these earliest books, particularly those...
So You Want to Sing Country
A Guide for Performers
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Country music, an original American artform, has been around since before the recording industry began and long before a singer even had the opportunity to sing into a microphone. From the early beginnings in the hills of Appalachia, to the rise of Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, and the more recent megastars,...