Music-Instruction & Study -Voice

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

A June 2020 Library Journal Starred ReviewOne hundred years after the legendary singer's birth, this book brings to life the career of an iconic performer whose contributions to the Great American Songbook, jazz, popular music, and film music remain unparalleled.Author: Tish OneyISBN-10: 1538183110ISBN-13: 9781538183113Publisher:...

The Bells of Is, or Voices of Human Need and Sorrow: Echoes from My Early Pastorates is a book written by Frederick Brotherton Meyer in 1894. The book is a collection of sermons and reflections from Meyer's early pastoral experiences. The title of the...

Breathing Gymnastics by Leo Kofler is a comprehensive guide to improving your breathing techniques through a series of exercises and gymnastics. The book is designed to help readers understand the importance of proper breathing and how it can enhance their overall health and wellbeing....

Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing contributes to a wave of voice studies scholarship with the first book-length study of free jazz voice. It pieces together a history of free jazz voice that spans from sound poetry and scat in the 1950s to the...

Becoming a Choral Music Teacher: A Field Experience Workbook, Second Edition is a choral methods textbook that prepares students in Music Education to become middle school and high school choral music teachers. It emphasizes important musical skills, vocal pedagogy and repertoire suitable for secondary...

Anna Bolena: A Lyric Tragedy, In Two Acts is an opera composed by Gaetano Donizetti in 1830. The libretto, written by Felice Romani, is based on the historical figure of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII of England. The opera tells...

Rufus Hallmark's book explores Robert Schumann's beloved yet controversial song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben and the poems of Adelbert von Chamisso on which it is based, setting them in the context of the challenges and social expectations faced by women in early nineteenth-century Germany....

The Cambridge Songs are preserved - many of them uniquely - in a famous eleventh-century manuscript held in Cambridge University Library. Composed in Germany, mostly in Latin but with some vernacular sections, these lyrics are most notable for the variety they display in both...

Presenting a fresh interpretation of Mozart's Requiem, Simon P. Keefe redresses a longstanding scholarly imbalance whereby narrow consideration of the text of this famously incomplete work has taken precedence over consideration of context in the widest sense. Keefe details the reception of the Requiem...

Caruso and the Art of Singing is a book written by Salvatore Fucito in 1922. The book is a comprehensive guide to the vocal exercises and practical advice of the famous Italian tenor, Enrico Caruso. Fucito, a student of Caruso, compiled the book from...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

SOUNDSHIFTING describes paths for personal health, healing and enjoyment for anyone who is consciously seeking new ways to create habits of intention, joy and fulfillment by using proven principles of sound healing. This book can awaken the potential of your voice as powerful vibrational...

An acknowledged master of m駘odie, Francis Poulenc's prolific song oeuvre exceeds the collections of all other French composers who wrote in this genre. Yet despite Poulenc's prolific output and its significance to art song repertoire, few volumes dedicated to study of Poulenc's works have...

Whether you're singing at open-mic nights & karaoke bars, playing large gigs, auditioning for American Idol, want to join a band, or have never performed at all, everything you need to know is covered in this book. You'll learn how to: * Develop expressive,...

This book is a guide to the study of sight singing and a valuable aid to ear training instruction. Although the book draws upon theoretical concepts it is easy to read and to follow. Readers learn to distinguish between structural and decorative tones within...

The Jazz Singers is an overview of the great vocalists who have sung jazz. In addition to covering the key singers from the past, Scott Yanow puts a strong emphasis on the current jazz scene where there are scores of talented vocalists. By drawing...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Michael McCallionISBN-10: 0878300929ISBN-13: 9780878300921Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/17/1998Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.82h x 5.04w x 0.76d

With the completion of Volume 3 of Canciones de España: Songs of Nineteenth-Century Spain, 83 songs by 50 19th-century Spanish composers are now available for performance and study, in both high and low voice editions. This final volume presents 31 newly published canciones by...

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.Author: Dan H. MarekISBN-10: 0810857111ISBN-13: 9780810857117Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This is a detailed discussion of various aspects of historical performance practice, especially as they relate to liturgical styles of the Renaissance. Issues of timbre, tempo, ensemble, ornamentation, and pitch are among those treated at length in this work intended to broaden the understanding...

Now in Paper! An invaluable reference text for singers, teachers, and vocal and operatic coaches, this volume contains the complete song texts of the songs for voice and piano by Chausson, Debussy, Duparc, Faure, and Ravel. Available in paperback in 2001.Author: Timothy LeVanISBN-10: 0810842122ISBN-13:...

This text provides conductors with the information necessary to select choral-orchestral works suitable to their needs and the abilities of their ensembles. It also provides them with the history of each piece and a detailed evaluation of performance issues for the choir, orchestra, and...

The Supplement emphasizes music published since 1995, or titles that were overlooked in the previous editions. Entries are arranged from Genesis through Revelation.Author: James H. LasterISBN-10: 081084138XISBN-13: 9780810841383Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2001Pages: 112Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 10.94h x 8.72w x 0.56dReview Citation(s): American Reference Bks...

The musical Hair was a cultural phenomenon in the epoch-changing era of the 1960s. Broadway has never been the same. This songbook includes highlights from the smash hit revival of the show, which has attracted raves from audiences and critics alike. Relive the new...

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.Author: Berton CoffinISBN-10: 0810815338ISBN-13: 9780810815339Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage:...

BREAKING THROUGH 2ND EDITION REVISED 3/01 VOCAL TECHNIQUEAuthor: Gloria BennettISBN-10: 079357238XISBN-13: 9780793572380Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.28d

(Fake Book). This easy, entry-level fake book features 24 well-known Christmas songs in leadsheet notation - melody, lyrics and chord symbols. A step-by-step tutorial shows players new to improvisation a method for getting started. All songs are in singable keys with no more than...

This book is a comprehensive guide to operas. Whether you are a novice or an experienced musician, Fellner's book serves as an indispensable resource. Basic musical and dramatic materials accompany vocal scores of operas from the repertoire of great opera houses. With rich summaries,...

For Singers at Every Stage of Their Careers Whether you're a performing arts college student, a newbie to the music industry or vocalist who is a seasoned professional, you can learn to stand out from amongst the sea of great singers and become a...

The Guinness Book of World Records calls her the best-selling female singer in history. Billboard named her the Celebrity of the Century. Diana Ross, lead singer of the most popular girl group of the 1960s and later a consummate solo artist, has been in...

A delightful dramatization, with enchanting songs, of Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of river-bank animals. Toad finds himself in prison but manages to escape, but not before Toad Hall, his pride and joy, has been overrun by the wicked Weasels. Thanks to the efforts of...

This exuberant musical, with a delightful score, conjures up the timeless dream world of work-shy, beer-swilling Andy Capp, known the world over from Reg Smythe's cartoon strip in the Daily Mirror.9 women, 11 menAuthor: Trevor PeacockISBN-10: 0573080569ISBN-13: 9780573080562Publisher: Samuel French LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1984Pages: 78Format:...

Fred Cochran, the hero, is a down-at-heel gangster, trying to make a comeback. Lil Smith is his loyal moll, a tart with a heart of gold, who longs for respectability and keeps a marriage licence ready for her lucky day. Fred's shpieler (gambling den)...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

The motets of J. S. Bach are probably the most sophisticated works ever composed in the genre. Nevertheless, Daniel Melamed maintains, the view that they constitute a body of work quite separate from the German motet tradition is mistaken. He starts by considering the...

The main purpose of this book is to clarify the meaning and use of the conventions governing the practice of implied accidentals in vocal polyphony from the early fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century - a problem which has fascinated musicologists for over a hundred...

Since its premiere Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) has been widely regarded as his finest masterpiece. It was written in the wake of personal events that shook the foundations of his life in 1907 and, like all his...

Bettina Varwig places the music of the celebrated Dresden composer Heinrich Sch tz in a richly detailed tapestry of cultural, political, religious and intellectual contexts. Four key events in Sch tz's career - the 1617 Reformation centenary, the performance of his Dafne in 1627,...

The collaboration of Schubert and the poet Wilhelm M ller produced some of the best loved of nineteenth-century lieder--in particular Die sch ne M llerin. Professor Youens shows how this archetypal tale of love and rejection is reflected in the poet's own experience. She...

Vocal Authority is about how singing styles develop and change, why classical singing is different from pop singing, and what singers actually mean when they sing. It takes a historical perspective, beginning with the ancient world, looking at changes in style up to the...

In this "rousing book that salutes the passion, the joy, and the pleasures of singing, music, and practice" (Spirituality and Health), Joan Oliver Goldsmith celebrates America's over 20 million singers and "teaches us that...to pursue a creative passion is a true act of love"...

Although the choral arrangements of the African-American spirituals constitute the largest group of folk song arrangements in western literature, they have received little scholarly attention. This book provides the needed historical and stylistic information about the spirituals and the arrangements. It traces the history...

Author: Carol Lucha BurnsISBN-10: 0313246483ISBN-13: 9780313246487Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/1986Pages: 598Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.50d

Grafting musicology and literary studies together in an unprecedented manner, Giving Voice to Love: Song and Self-Expression from the Troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut investigates French and Occitan "courtly love" songs from the twelfth to fourteenth centuries and explores the paradoxical relationship of music...

A History of Western Choral Music explores the various genres, key composers, and influential works essential to the development of the western choral tradition. Author Chester L. Alwes divides this exploration into two volumes which move from Medieval music and the Renaissance era up...