So You Want to Sing Jazz - A Guide for Professionals

Informationen zum Autor By Jan Shapiro Klappentext In So You Want to Sing Jazz, singer and professor of voice Jan Shapiro gives a guided tour through the art and science of the jazz vocal style. Throughout, Shapiro hones in on what makes jazz singing distinctive, suggesting along the way how other types of singers can make use of jazz. She looks at such key matters in jazz singing as the role of improvisation, the place of specific singers who influenced and even defined vocal jazz as we know it today, and the unique way in which jazz incorporates vibrato, conversational delivery, rhythmic phrasing, and melodic embellishment and improvisation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 - The History of Jazz and Elements of Jazz SingingChapter 2 - Singing Jazz and Voice ScienceChapter 3 - Vocal Health and the Vocal Jazz Artist Chapter 4 - Jazz Vocal CharacteristicsChapter 5 - Developing Jazz EarsChapter 6 - The Great American SongbookChapter 7 - Scat and InterpretationChapter 8 - Jazz Vocal PerformanceChapter 9 - Jazz Singing as a Career

Product details

• Authors: Jan Shapiro, Shapiro Jan
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.2015
• EAN: 9781442229358
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-2935-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: So You Want to Sing; So You Want to Sing
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Jazz, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, Popular Music, Techniques of music / music tutorials / teaching of music, Techniques Of Music / Music Tutorials