Randye Jones

So You Want to Sing Spirituals

A Guide for Performers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9781538107348
• ISBN-10: 1538107341
• Artikelnr.: 56974038

Autorenporträt

Randye Jones first learned about spirituals at her home church in North Carolina. She has been a presenter at the Research, Education, Activism, and Performance National Conference on Spirituals and conferences of the African American Art Song Alliance, the National Association of Negro Musicians, the Music Library Association, and the Phenomenon of Singing International Symposium.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: What Are Spirituals?
Chapter 2: From Cotton Field to Concert Hall
Chapter 3: Pioneers of the Concert Spiritual
Chapter 4: Song Literature
Chapter 5: Using Dialect in Performance
Chapter 6: Must You Be Black to Sing Spirituals?
Chapter 7: Collaborating with Pianists, Casey Robards
Chapter 8: African American Art Song, Emery Stephens & Caroline Helton
Chapter 9: Spirituals: Interpretative Guidelines for Studio Teachers,
Barbara Steinhaus
Chapter 10: Choral Arrangements of Spirituals, Patricia J. Trice
Chapter 11: Spirituals: America's Contribution to World Sacred Music,
Timothy W. Sharpe
Chapter 12: Gaining Perspective: A Linguistic Approach to Dialect, Felicia
Barber
Chapter 13: Singing and Voice Science, Scott McCoy
Chapter 14: Vocal Health for Singers, Wendy LeBorgne