Popular Singing and Style: 2nd edition

by Donna Soto-Morettini

Overview

This second edition of the highly successful Popular Singing serves as a practical guide to exploring the singing voice while helping to enhance vocal confidence in a range of popular styles. The book provides effective alternatives to traditional voice training methods, and demonstrates how these methods can be used to create a flexible and unique sound.

This updated and thoroughly revised edition features a new chapter on training for popular singing, which incorporates recent movements in teaching the discipline across the globe, taking into account recent developments in the area. The book also features a new section on 'bridging' - ie. using all the technical elements outlined in the book to help the singer find their own particular expressive style to inspire more playfulness and creativity, both for the individual singer and for the teacher in practice and performance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472518651
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	07/31/2014
Series:	Performance Books
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	447 KB

About the Author

Donna Soto-Morettini has been auditioning and training performers for over two decades. She has served as Director of Drama for the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Head of Acting and Dance for Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, and Head of Acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She also has extensive television experience, having worked as a Casting Director and Performance Coach for How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria, Any Dream Will Do, I'd Do Anything, and Over the Rainbow for BBC; as Performance Coach for ITV's Pop Star to Opera Star and as Casting Director for BBC's The Voice.
Donna Soto-Morettini has served as Director of Drama for the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Head of Acting and Dance for Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, and Head of Acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK. She has worked as casting director and performance coach for Andrew Lloyd Webber's television shows, as casting director for The Voice and performance coach for ITV's Popstar to Opera Star. Her books include Mastering the Audition: How to Perform Under Pressure (2012),Popular Singing and Style (2014), and Mastering the Shakespeare Audition (2016) and The Philosophical Actor (2010).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
1. Cultivating Style
2. Anatomy and Sound
3. The Complementary Elements of Style
4. Blues, Gospel, Jazz and What Came After
5. Practice, Performance, Artistry and Finding Your Own Style
Appendix A
Index

Editorial Reviews

With Popular Singing and Style, 2nd Edition, Donna Soto-Morettini offers readers a veritable encyclopedia. It is a book written for singers, but is an essential reference for anyone who may be interested in vocal function and application. The plethora of exercises, recordings, performances, artists, and songs cited is almost overwhelming in one book. The accompanying website and its extensive collection of samples act as an essential companion to complete the experience. The reader is addressed with frank clarity and a touch of humor, which facilitates a happily uncomplicated experience of digesting the wealth of information presented … This book is capable of being used over time, and referred to at different stages in a singer’s process. Upon completion of the introduction, the reader can feel comfortable and in good hands for the jourbaney, however they decide to embark on it … Soto-Morettini has delivered an invaluable resource for music lovers of all types.” –Voice and Speech Review

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