The Free Voice: A Guide to Natural Singing

Contents

• Foreword
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Organs of Voice
• Natural Singing: Correct vs. Habitual
• 3 Vocal Control
• Direct Control
• Control Through Self-Awareness
• Conceptual Control and Its Limitations
• 4 The Vocal Registers
• Mechanics of the Registers
• 'Pure' Registration
• Registers and Intensity
• The 'Break'
• 'Mixed' Registration
• A Coordinated or 'Blended' Registration
• The 'Two-Voiced' Singer
• Segmentation of the Registers
• Register Rotation
• Parallel Relationships
• Registers and Interpretation
• 5 Aesthetic Judgment
• Vowel Quality
• Vowel Adaptation
• Common Factors
• The Legato
• The Attack
• Vocal Limitations
• Voice 'Building'
• 6 Conceptual Evaluations
• Textural Properties of the Vowel, Registration and Resonance
• Temperament, Anatomical Structure and Emotional Identification
• 7 Vocal Exercises
• Exercising the Registers
• Exercises for Separating the Registers, Female Voice
• Exercises for Separating the Registers, Male Voice
• Exercises for Register Mutation
• Preparatory Exercises for Combining the Registers, Female Voice
• Preparatory Exercises for Combining the Registers, Male Voice
• The Messa di Voce
• Messa di Voce-Female Voice
• Messa di Voce-Male Voice
• Practice
• Repertoire and Interpretation
• 8 Breathing
• Breath 'Control'
• Feeling and Emotion
• 9 Characteristic Voice Movements
• The Vibrato
• The Tremolo
• The Wobble
• 10 Attitudes Toward Teaching and Learning
• Self-Perception
• Freedom and Intuition
• Spontaneity
• Stimulus Control
• Tangible Control
• Energy and Movement
• The Conditioned Reflex Theory
• APPENDIX
• The Composition of Vocal Tone
• Pitch
• Intensity
• Resonance
• Duration
• Quality-The Vowel-Timbre
• Index