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- ISBN 9781032408323
- Weight: 760g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 21 Mar 2023
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Rockford Sansom, PhD, is a voice coach in theater and a voice trainer in business and politics. He is Editor of the Voice and Speech Review and has published The History of Voice Pedagogy: Multidisciplinary Reflections on Training.
