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Author Murray, Dena.

Title Vocal technique : a guide to finding your real voice / by Dena Murray.

Imprint Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Corp., ©2002.

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  783.043 MURRAY    Check Shelf
Description 60 pages : illustrations, music ; 31 cm + 2 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.).
Series Essential concepts
Essential concepts (Musicians Institute)
Note Includes 2 CDs.
Contents Introduction -- 1. Your voice (and how it works) -- A scenario : is this you? -- How the body produces sound -- The high and low voices -- Breaks -- 2. All About breathing -- Why squeeze, hold, or push? -- Pitch -- Controlling the flow of air -- Right breathing, everyday breathing -- The four breathing rules -- Mental vs. physical effort -- 3. Right placement -- Speaking and singing are similar actions -- Resonance -- Working with vowels -- 4. Scales -- Scale I : working the registers -- Bad habits -- Going through the break -- Placing the voice -- Keeping the throat open -- Scale II : stretching the cords -- Special needs -- Too breathy -- Too sharp / shrill -- A "trashed" voice -- Scale III : working the break -- Scale IV : bridging the middle -- Special needs -- A weak chest voice -- For advanced singers -- The pharyngeal voice -- 5. Singing songs -- Open up your voice! -- Phonetics : how words sound -- Rewriting your lyrics : a sample -- Emotion & songs -- Closing -- Appendix A. Nodes & your health -- Appendix B. The scales (in all twelve keys) -- CD index.
Subject Singing -- Instruction and study.
Singing -- Methods -- Self-instruction.
Voice.
Voice culture.
Singing. (OCoLC)fst01119311
Singing -- Instruction and study. (OCoLC)fst01119319
Voice. (OCoLC)fst01168739
Voice culture. (OCoLC)fst01168754
Genre/Form Methods -- Self-instruction. (OCoLC)fst01423708
Added Author Musicians Institute.
Note At head of title: Musicians Institute
Added Title Guide to finding your real voice
ISBN 063401319X (pbk.)
9780634013195 (pbk.)
Standard No. 073999595024
Music No. HL00695427 Hal Leonard Corp.
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