Linda Gates

Voice for Performance (eBook, ePUB)

Training the Actor's Voice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A valuable guide that teaches students and professional performers alike how to train their most essential feature-their voice. For voice performers-from actors and singers to newscasters and radio hosts-even a minor voice disorder can have a significant impact on their career. Vocal training is vital if the performer wants to use his or her voice effectively and repeatedly. In Voice for Performance: Training the Actor's Voice, Third Edition, Linda Gates addresses key elements of voice and speech-respiration, vibration, resonation, and articulation-in a straightforward style to produce voices that are clear, articulate, and easily heard. While the focus of the book is on training the voice for performance in live theatre, it also features guidance for students who want to expand their vocal skills for work in radio, podcasts, television, film, voice acting, and even online meetings and presentations. This third edition features extensive updates based on advances in voice science, new pedagogical approaches, new media, and the latest technology. It also includes a companion website, voiceforperformance.com, with videos and audio of the author demonstrating the exercises, making this book a must-have for all voice performers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538163795
• Artikelnr.: 64012798

Autorenporträt

Linda Gates is an actress, director, teacher, writer and Professor of Instruction in the Department of Theatre at Northwestern University where she is Head of Voice and the author of Voice for Performance and Speaking in Shakespeare's Voice: A Guide for American Actors published by Northwestern University Press. As a professional voice and dialect coach, she has worked both on and off-Broadway, in Chicago, regional theatre, opera and film. Linda Gates's special focus is coaching and directing Shakespeare and adapting poetic text for performance. She has directed with co-director Kiara Pipino The Tempest, Pericles, Much Ado About Nothing, and All's Well That Ends Well in which she played the Countess Roussillon at Prague Shakespeare Company and has directed and adapted Lysistrata by Aristophanes, The Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot; The Road Not Taken: The World of Robert Frost; American Voices: Home for the Rothermere Institute of Oxford University , and The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath which she performed at the Oxford Playhouse in the UK. The Thistle and the Rose began as Linda Gates's Master's Thesis for the Gallatin College of Individual Study at New York University. Visit the author's website at https://lindagates.com/.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter I. The Actor's Voice
Chapter II. Relaxation and Body Alignment
Chapter III. Breathing
Chapter IV. Resonance
Chapter V. The Sounds of English
Chapter VI. Special Speech Issues
Chapter VII. Keeping Your Voice Healthy
Chapter VIII. The Electronic Voice
Chapter IX. Occupational Demands on the Actor's Voice
Chapter X. An Approach to Text
Chapter XI. The Singing Voice
Bibliography
Notes
Index
About the Author