So You Want to Sing Spirituals - A Guide for Performers

Informationen zum Autor By Randye Jones Klappentext This volumes provides singers a comprehensive guide to the history of and performance techniques for spirituals. Along with Jones's own considerations of dialect, improvisation, and other technical considerations, contributed chapters address collaborative piano, studio teaching, choral arrangement, and voice science and health. Zusammenfassung This volumes provides singers a comprehensive guide to the history of and performance techniques for spirituals. Along with Jones’s own considerations of dialect, improvisation, and other technical considerations, contributed chapters address collaborative piano, studio teaching, choral arrangement, and voice science and health. Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordGeorge ShirleyChapter 1: What Are Spirituals?Chapter 2: From Cotton Field to Concert HallChapter 3: Pioneers of the Concert SpiritualChapter 4: Song LiteratureChapter 5: Using Dialect in PerformanceChapter 6: Must You Be Black to Sing Spirituals?Chapter 7: Collaborating with PianistsCasey RobardsChapter 8: African American Art SongEmery Stephens & Caroline HeltonChapter 9: Spirituals: Interpretative Guidelines for Studio TeachersBarbara SteinhausChapter 10: Choral Arrangements of SpiritualsPatricia J. Trice Chapter 11: Spirituals: America's Contribution to World Sacred MusicTimothy W. SharpeChapter 12: Gaining Perspective: A Linguistic Approach to DialectFelicia BarberChapter 13: Singing and Voice Science Scott McCoyChapter 14: Vocal Health for Singers Wendy LeBorgne

Product details

• Authors: Randye Jones
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781538107348
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0734-8
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: So You Want to Sing
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, Folk & traditional music, Folk, Folkloric styles, Traditional and folk music