On the art of singing / Richard Miller.

This manual deals with all aspects of singing and includes vocal technique, style and interpretation, professional preparation, and vocal pedagogy.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Richard, 1926-2009
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Subjects:

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000 a 4500
001 in00000002677
008 950601s1996 nyua b 001 0 eng
005 20230303175721.5
010 |a  95030176  
035 |a (OCoLC)ocm32697649 
035 |a (OCoLC)ocm32697649 
040 |a DLC  |b eng  |c DLC  |d NLGGC  |d BAKER  |d BTCTA  |d LVB  |d YDXCP  |d P4I  |d GEBAY  |d ZR1  |d OCLCQ  |d BDX  |d BCO  |d GBVCP  |d BKL  |d OCLCF  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d CRG  |d OCLCO  |d OKS  |d OCLCO  |d SD3DS  |d OCLCO  |d ICD 
015 |a GB96Y1583  |2 bnb 
016 7 |a 019-50982  |2 uk 
019 |a 1120786427 
020 |a 0195098250 
020 |a 9780195098259 
020 |a 9780199773923  |q (pbk.) 
020 |a 0199773920  |q (pbk.) 
035 |a (OCoLC)32697649  |z (OCoLC)1120786427 
050 0 0 |a MT820  |b .M599 1996 
082 0 0 |a 783  |2 20 
084 |a 24.86  |2 bcl 
084 |a 24.41  |2 bcl 
084 |a 24.90  |2 bcl 
088 |a 95030176 
100 1 |a Miller, Richard,  |d 1926-2009. 
245 1 0 |a On the art of singing /  |c Richard Miller. 
260 |a New York :  |b Oxford University Press,  |c 1996. 
300 |a xii, 318 pages :  |b illustrations ;  |c 24 cm 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a volume  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier 
500 |a New and previously published essays, in part revised. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 |a This manual deals with all aspects of singing and includes vocal technique, style and interpretation, professional preparation, and vocal pedagogy. 
505 0 |a Part I : On training the singing voice. Imagery and the teaching of singing -- Five principles for the successful teaching of singing -- Covering in the singing voice -- The open throat (La gola aperta) -- Breath management diction and the vocal legato -- Diction and vocal technique -- The performer as voice teacher -- Pedagogical clothing for the emperor and empress -- The tricky teacher -- Woofy baritones and tinny tenors -- McPedagogy -- What you need is more support -- Simplicity in singing -- Teaching hearing the voice -- Si canta come is parla -- How singing is not like speaking -- Thinking phonetically (values and pitfalls of the IPA) -- A parable of the foolish baker -- The choral conductor as teacher of vocal technique -- The law of contingency and vocal pedagogies -- To admire or to teach -- Patching the vocal garment -- Mysteries and miracles -- The flat earth school of vocal pedagogy -- Sharpening up some old pedagogical saws -- Open windows. 
505 0 |a Part II : On musical style and interpretation. Purely a matter of taste -- The two poles of Bel Canto -- Singing the mélodie -- Self perception and performance reality -- Liederwurst -- Seit ich ihn gesehen ... kann ich jedoch singen -- Words or sentences? Notes or phrases? -- Sentiment or sentimentality -- Singing the recitative -- Reality and art -- Pop music, non western European vocal styles and efficient vocal function -- How is legato achieved in singing -- Rhythm versus beat -- Large and small strokes -- The Gilda in the sack school of singing -- The demise of the studio Baroque vocal sound -- Vocal coach or vocal technician -- Vocal tea parties of the private and public sorts -- As the old Italians said -- The lively dying art of singing -- The sense of immediacy in singing. 
505 0 |a Part III : On preparation for the professional life. The seven pillars of performance success -- Wrapping up the performance package -- What to do on a performance day -- Warming up the voice -- The technique of marking -- The vocal contestant and the judges -- Twenty-one proven ways to alienate competition judges -- Beginning with another teacher -- Early and late bloomers -- creative practicing -- A stroll past the practice rooms -- What technical work have you done today -- The lonely soccer player -- How to really bomb a master class -- Developing independence in the student -- Is there a cure for performance anxiety -- Please tell me my fach -- The aging singer -- The wisdom of the body in singing -- Studio procedures -- Truth in advertising -- a critical look -- The practicality of creativity. 
505 0 |a Part IV : On the singing voice and vocal function. The singing teacher in the age of voice science -- On the invasion of vocal pedagogy by science -- The invisible instrument -- Have you read the literature -- Taming the terrible triplets of vocal tract : tongue / hyoid bone / larynx -- The three musketeers of tension : tongue, neck and jaw -- Gorillas giraffes lions and gazelles -- Male and female created he them -- In search of the tenth rib -- Teaching voices of the opposite gender -- Instinctive artistic singing -- Let's build a straw man : the technique versus artistry debate -- The misuses of scientific information in the teaching of singing -- Relax and sing -- Easily not lazily : tonicity in the singing instrument -- The effect of tongue position on spectra in singing -- The role of the jaw in singing -- The incorrupt jaw and tongue of Saint Anthony of Padua -- How big is the big sound -- Feeling hearing and seeing the voice -- Spectrographic analysis of the singing voice -- Vowel definition in a performance by Jussi Bjoerling of Vesti la giubba -- Spectral components of five cardinal vowels in the soprano singing voice considered by means of the sequential vowel diagonal -- A brief spectral study of vowel differentiation and modification in a professional tenor voice -- What the vocal arts laboratory can and cannot do -- The singer and the Otolaryngologist. 
650 0 |a Singing  |x Instruction and study. 
650 0 |a Singing  |x Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.) 
650 0 |a Singing  |x Vocational guidance. 
650 0 |a Voice. 
653 0 |a Singing  |a Instruction and study 
653 0 |a Singing  |a Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.) 
653 0 |a Singing  |a Vocational guidance 
938 |a Baker & Taylor  |b BKTY  |c 49.50  |d 49.50  |i 0195098250  |n 0002703429  |s active 
938 |a Brodart  |b BROD  |n 49171534  |c $55.00 
938 |a Baker and Taylor  |b BTCP  |n 95030176 
938 |a YBP Library Services  |b YANK  |n 105060 
029 1 |a AU@  |b 000011760932 
029 1 |a GBVCP  |b 186065191 
029 1 |a GEBAY  |b 2702023 
029 1 |a NZ1  |b 4730011 
029 1 |a UKBOR  |b 032891466 
029 1 |a UKLEE  |b 16904 
029 1 |a UNITY  |b 032891466 
029 1 |a YDXCP  |b 105060 
994 |a Z0  |b HCD 
948 |h HELD BY HCD - 801 OTHER HOLDINGS 
999 f f |s 54071c7e-deaf-4071-b68e-731f47e9fad9  |i af9f934d-ada9-4d1a-852e-43afbb559887  |t 0 
952 f f |p Can Circulate  |a College of the Holy Cross  |b Main Campus  |c Music  |d Music Library  |t 0  |e MT 820 .M599 1996  |h Library of Congress classification  |i Book  |m 38400004344899