Description
Vocal Traditions: Training in the Performing Arts explores the 18 most influential voice training techniques and methodologies of the past 100 years. This extensive international collection highlights historically important voice teachers, contemporary leaders in the field, and rising schools of thought. Each vocal tradition showcases its instructional perspective, offering backgrounds on the founder(s), key concepts, example exercises, and further resources. The text’s systematic approach allows a unique pedagogical evaluation of the vast voice training field, which not only includes university and conservatory training but also private session and workshop coaching as well.
Covering a global range of voice training systems, this book will be of interest to those studying voice, singing, speech, and accents, as well as researchers from the fields of communication, music education, and performance. This book was originally published as a series in the Voice and Speech Review journal.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Framing the "Vocal Traditions" Series
Rockford Sansom
1. Cicely Berry and the Central School Tradition
David Carey
2. Linklater Voice Method
Kristin Linklater
3. Rodenburg Voice and Speech
Amy Leavitt
4. Fitzmaurice Voicework
Jeff Morrison, Saul Kotzubei and Tyler Seiple
5. Lessac Kinesensics
Marth Munro et al.
6. Knight-Thompson SpeechworkPhilip Thompson, Andrea Caban and Erik Singer
7. Estill Voice Training®
Kimberly M. Steinhauer and Mary McDonald Klimek
8. The Roy Hart Tradition
Kevin Crawford and Noah Pikes
9. The Sharpe/Haydn Method
Edda Sharpe and Jan Haydn Rowles
10. Miller Voice Method
Scott Miller, John Patrick, Liam Joynt and Kristi Dana
11. A Voice Pedagogy Based in Middendorf Breathwork
Jeff Crockett
12. Vocal Combat Technique
D’Arcy Smith and Chaslee Schweitzer
13. Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method
Andrew R. White
14. Breathwork Africa
Marj Murray and Ela Manga
15. Steiner Speech
Geoffrey Norris
16. Seven Pillars Acting Technique
Sonya Cooke et al.
17. Vibrant Voice TechniquePamela Prather
18. Acting and Singing with Archetypes
Bill J. Adams and Christine Morris
