Voice: Onstage and Off / Edition 3

by Robert Barton, Rocco dal Vera

Overview

Voice: Onstage and Off is a comprehensive guide to the process of building, mastering, and fine-tuning the voice for performance. Every aspect of vocal work is covered, from the initial speech impulse and the creation of sound, right through to refining the final product in different types of performance. This highly adaptable course of study empowers performers of all levels to combine and evolve their onstage and offstage voices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138918580
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/05/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	418
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert Barton is professor emeritus of acting at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Style for Actors, Acting: Onstage and Off, Acting Reframes, co-author of: Movement: Onstage and Off with Barbara Sellers-Young, Theatre in Your Life and Life Themes (both with Annie McGregor), and A Voice for the Theatre with Harry Hill. He has been honored as Outstanding Acting Coach by the American College Theatre Festival and writes a column, "Many Right Ways," for The Voice and Speech Review.

Rocco Dal Vera is a Head of the Division for Acting, Arts Administration, Dance, Musical Theatre, Opera and Theatre Design & Production at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, specializing in theatre voice and speech with particular interest in voice and emotion. He is co-author of Acting in Musical Theatre, 2^nd ed. (with Joe Deer, Routledge, 2016), a columnist for Dramatics Magazine and Teaching Theatre, and founding editor of The Voice and Speech Review.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 Owning your voice

CHAPTER 2 Healing your voice

CHAPTER 3 Mastering your language

CHAPTER 4 Expanding your voice

CHAPTER 5 Refining your voice

CHAPTER 6 Expressing your text

CHAPTER 7 Releasing your other voices

CHAPTER 8 Selecting your system

CHAPTER 9 Planning your voice future

Editorial Reviews

'I do not know of a more comprehensive book on the subject'

- Beth McGuire, Yale School of Drama

'...excellent resource and should ofer superb value to the field for a long time to come.'

- Jane Boston, Central School of Speech and Drama, UK

'...a book that practically teaches by itself. Comprehensive and easily accessible...'

- from Voice and Speech Training in the New Millennium, Conversations with Master Teachers by Nancy Saklad

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