Annette Betanski

eBook, ePUB

The Voice (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

The Voice is a multi - media book meant to inspire curiosity, appreciation, understanding and wonder about the amazing human voice. The text and various internet links provide a lively way of approaching the subject - you will be able to peer down the throats of singers as they perform, hear opera singers, rock stars, musical theater singers, yodelers, beat-boxers, throat singers (overtone singers) and more. Straight-forward explanations by the author along with diverse video and information links make discovery entertaining. It sheds light on how the voice functions and examines various vocal traditions to gain a better understanding of this magnificent instrument and how it works to create the sounds we hear. The most often asked questions related to singing are examined - for example, how does the voice work? What do the vocal cords do, and what do they look like? Why do opera singers sound so different from pop singers and how is it that they can be heard without using a microphone? How do overtone singers produce more than one pitch at a time? What is the difference between a soprano and a mezzo-soprano? These questions and many others will be answered. This is not a book on vocal technique, but there are some excerpts and tutorials on certain vocal styles. Singers, aspiring singers or fans of the voice will find many treasures and a host of information in this little book. Audio version read by the author is also included.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• ohne Kopierschutz
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Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Canadian soprano Annette Betanski has been a singer mainly in the area of classical music, chamber music and opera as well as some cross-over into contemporary styles. She studied Vocal Performance at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and obtained her post-Licentiate Artist Diploma from McGill University, Montreal, in Vocal Performance. Ms. Betanski has performed in some of Germany's most renowned theaters and concert halls in recent years including the world famous Gewandhaus in Leipzig, and toured over 50 cities in Germany, Switzerland and Poland as well as music festivals in Canada and the US, such as Tanglewood, the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, Festival of the Sound and the Elora Festival. Ms. Betanski has taught singing for almost 2 decades, was on the Music Faculty for Vocal Performance at the University of Massachusetts in the US and continues to teach singing in her private studio in Berlin, Germany.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Convida
• Seitenzahl: 60
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783946434054
• Artikelnr.: 50865591