So You Want to Sing Chamber Music (eBook)

A Guide for Performers

Susan Hochmiller (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
244 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-0517-7 (ISBN)

Infos

As a comprehensive guide to learning, rehearsing, and performing vocal chamber music, this volume explores such critical skills as choosing repertoire appropriate for one’s voice type, communicating with your ensemble, performance style, preparing for a successful rehearsal, staging considerations, and recital programming.

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Vocal chamber music encompasses a wide range of music composed for anything from a solo to twelve voices and instruments. Performing chamber music offers the singer a unique opportunity to increase collaboration with instrumentalists and improve technique, musicianship, artistry, and communication. So You Want to Sing Chamber Music offers a comprehensive guide to learning, rehearsing, and performing in this genre. The book explores such critical skills as choosing repertoire that is appropriate for one's voice type, communicating with wind players and string players, preparing for a successful rehearsal, performance style, staging considerations, and recital programming. Also included are suggestions on using vocal chamber music as a pedagogical tool in the voice studio, alongside recommendations for listening and further reading.Additional chapters by Scott McCoy and Wendy LeBorgne address universal questions of voice science, pedagogy, and vocal health. The So You Want to Sing seriesis produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing Chamber Music features online supplemental material on the NATS website. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources

Autor

Susan Hochmiller is assistant professor of voice at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College and director of Orvieto Musica’s Art of Song summer vocal chamber music festival in Orvieto, Italy. She is an avid recitalist and has performed chamber music in Italy and across the United States. An active member of NATS since 2007, Hochmiller was one of twelve voice teachers from the United States and Canada selected to participate in the prestigious 2012 NATS Intern Program, and she has served as president of the Allegheny Mountain Chapter since 2016.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 – A Brief History of Chamber MusicChapter 2 – Why Sing Chamber Music?Chapter 3 – How to Program Vocal Chamber MusicChapter 4 – Breathe with the Bow: Communicating with InstrumentalistsChapter 5 – Stylistic ConsiderationsChapter 6 – Pedagogical Advantages of Using Vocal Chamber Music in the Voice StudioChapter 7 – Singing and Voice Science, Scott McCoyChapter 8 – Vocal Health for the Chamber Music Singer, Wendy LeBorgneAppendix – Introductory List of Art Song Duets, Trios, and QuartetsAppendix – Selected Journal of Singing Articles, James Maroney and Joan Frey Boytim

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: So You Want to Sing
• Zusatzinfo: 34 Illustrations including: - 7 Color Illustrations; - 15 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs; - 12 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Schlagworte: can anyone learn to sing • chamber music • Collaboration • Duets • Ensembles • how to sing • learn how to sing • learn to sing • Singing • singing app • singing lessons • singing tips • train voice • Vocal Chamber Music • vocal pedagogy • Vocal Repertoire • vocal training • Voice
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-0517-9 / 1538105179
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-0517-7 / 9781538105177