So You Want to Sing CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music): A Guide for Performers
So You Want to Sing CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music) presents a compendium of approaches to non-classical singing with an emphasis on vocal technique and function. Over the past twenty years, approaches to singing CCM have exploded, resulting in many schools of technique. So You Want to Sing CCM is the first book to bring these trademarked methods—such as Estill Voice Training™, Somatic Voicework™, Complete Vocal Technique™, Voiceworks™, and the Vocal Power Method™—together in a single volume.

So You Want to Sing CCM opens the reader to the vast world of contemporary commercial music through the teachings of the world’s best-known practicing CCM pedagogues. Supplemental chapters by Matthew Edwards, Darren Wicks, and editor Matthew Hoch offer additional commentary on CCM history and pedagogy while chapters by Scott McCoy, Wendy LeBorgne, and Matthew Edwards investigate voice science, vocal health, and audio enhancement technology.

The So You Want to Sing series is produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing CCM features online supplemental material. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources
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So You Want to Sing CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music): A Guide for Performers
So You Want to Sing CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music) presents a compendium of approaches to non-classical singing with an emphasis on vocal technique and function. Over the past twenty years, approaches to singing CCM have exploded, resulting in many schools of technique. So You Want to Sing CCM is the first book to bring these trademarked methods—such as Estill Voice Training™, Somatic Voicework™, Complete Vocal Technique™, Voiceworks™, and the Vocal Power Method™—together in a single volume.

So You Want to Sing CCM opens the reader to the vast world of contemporary commercial music through the teachings of the world’s best-known practicing CCM pedagogues. Supplemental chapters by Matthew Edwards, Darren Wicks, and editor Matthew Hoch offer additional commentary on CCM history and pedagogy while chapters by Scott McCoy, Wendy LeBorgne, and Matthew Edwards investigate voice science, vocal health, and audio enhancement technology.

The So You Want to Sing series is produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing CCM features online supplemental material. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources
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So You Want to Sing CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music): A Guide for Performers

So You Want to Sing CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music): A Guide for Performers

So You Want to Sing CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music): A Guide for Performers

So You Want to Sing CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music): A Guide for Performers

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Overview

So You Want to Sing CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music) presents a compendium of approaches to non-classical singing with an emphasis on vocal technique and function. Over the past twenty years, approaches to singing CCM have exploded, resulting in many schools of technique. So You Want to Sing CCM is the first book to bring these trademarked methods—such as Estill Voice Training™, Somatic Voicework™, Complete Vocal Technique™, Voiceworks™, and the Vocal Power Method™—together in a single volume.

So You Want to Sing CCM opens the reader to the vast world of contemporary commercial music through the teachings of the world’s best-known practicing CCM pedagogues. Supplemental chapters by Matthew Edwards, Darren Wicks, and editor Matthew Hoch offer additional commentary on CCM history and pedagogy while chapters by Scott McCoy, Wendy LeBorgne, and Matthew Edwards investigate voice science, vocal health, and audio enhancement technology.

The So You Want to Sing series is produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing CCM features online supplemental material. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538103616
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 04/03/2018
Series: So You Want to Sing , #11
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Matthew Hoch is associate professor of voice and coordinator of voice studies at Auburn University. He is the author of several books, including A Dictionary for the Modern Singer. He holds the BM from Ithaca College, MM from the Hartt School, and DMA from the New England Conservatory. Dr. Hoch is the 2016 winner of the Van L. Lawrence Fellowship, awarded jointly by the Voice Foundation and NATS. He actively performs art song, opera, chamber music, and in professional choral settings.

Table of Contents

Part I – Contemporary Commercial Music: An Introduction

Chapter 1: CCM Pedagogy: The Pioneering Generation, Matthew Hoch
Chapter 2: CCM versus Music Theater: A Comparison, Matthew Edwards
Chapter 3: Singing and Voice Science, Scott McCoy
Chapter 4: Vocal Health and the CCM Singer, Wendy LeBorgne
Chapter 5: Using Audio Enhancement Technology, Matthew Edwards

Part II – Profiles of Twelve CCM Pedagogues

Chapter 6: Katie Agresta, New York, New York
Chapter 7: Irene Bartlett, Brisbane, Australia
Chapter 8: Robert Edwin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Chapter 9: Elisabeth Howard, Chicago, Illinois
Chapter 10: Joan Lader, New York, New York
Chapter 11: Jeannette LoVetri, New York, New York
Chapter 12: Mark Meylan, London, United Kingdom
Chapter 13: Lisa Popeil, Los Angeles, California
Chapter 14: David Sabella, New York, New York
Chapter 15: Cathrine Sadolin, Copenhagen, Denmark
Chapter 16: Mary Saunders Barton, State College, Pennsylvania
Chapter 17: Daniel Zangger Borch, Stockholm, Sweden

Part III – Contemporary Commercial Music: Past, Present, and Future

Chapter 18: Effortless Singing: SLS™ and Its Influence, Darren Wicks
Chapter 19: Why It’s Time to Add CCM to Your Studio, Matthew Edwards
Chapter 20: The Future of CCM Pedagogy, Matthew Hoch
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