Author: Pearl Shinn Wormhoudt
Publisher: Xlibris Corporatio
Keywords: singing, teaching, psychology, psyche, song
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2002-04-30
List price: $19.98
ISBN-10: 1401040942
ISBN-13: 9781401040949
With a Song in My Psyche studies the psychology of singing and teaching singing. It describes the musical brain, the singer’s mind/body interaction, the crucial early musical development, the adolescent singer, gender factors, psychology of performance, and the psychological basis for attaining greater artistry. In these descriptions, a number of psychologically motivated factors are explored that lead either to poor singing or to excellent healthy singing: personality, temperament, managing the singer’s life-style, building a character, perfectionism, performance anxiety, motivati
Author: M. Whitney Kelting
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: singing, jain, devotion, negotiations, laywomen, jinas, mandal
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-08-02
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0195140117
ISBN-13: 9780195140118
While Western Jain scholarship has focused on those texts and practices favoring male participation, the Jain community itself relies heavily on lay women’s participation for religious education, the performance of key rituals, and the locus of religious knowledge. In this fieldwork-based study, Whitney Kelting attempts to reconcile these women’s understanding of Jainism with the religion as presented in the existing scholarship. Jain women, she shows, both accept and rewrite the idealized roles received from religious texts, practices, and social expectation, according to which
Author: Johann Von Gardner
Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr
Keywords: russian, singing, church, vol, hymnography, orthodox, worship
Number of Pages: 146
Published: 1997-03-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0913836591
ISBN-13: 9780913836590
This comprehensive study is intended to serve not only as a standard reference work but also as the cornerstone and inspiration for future research into the music of the Russian Orthodox Church. As its author emphasizes, the music of the Orthodox Church cannot be understood in purely aesthetic categories, apart from the liturgical context which determines both its context and its function. Accordingly, this first volume examines not only the early history of Russian chant, but also the structure of Orthodox worship and the poetical forms of its hymnography.
Author: Jerome Hines
Publisher: Limelight Editions
Keywords: singers, famous, opera, singing, technique, star, interviews
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0879100257
ISBN-13: 9780879100254
Jerome Hines has interviewed 40 singers, a speech therapist, and a throat specialist to provide this invaluable collection of advice for all singers. This collection includes the commentary of Licia Albanese, Franco Corelli, Placido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Marilyn Horne, Sherrill Milnes, Birgit Nilsson, Luciano Pavarotti, Rose Ponselle, Beverly Sills, Joan Sutherland and many others. "Probably the best book on the subject." Publishers Weekly
Author: W. W. Cazalet
Publisher: Stewart Press
Keywords: singing, art
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008-10-07
List price: $7.45
ISBN-10: 1443755451
ISBN-13: 9781443755450
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author: Richard Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: singing, art
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1996-05-30
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0195098250
ISBN-13: 9780195098259
Of all of the performance arts, that of singing is the most complex and its preparation and practice the most fraught with controversy. Teachers argue over the best method, and students often move from teacher to teacher in search of the ultimate vocal style. Technique is only one aspect of the singer’s art, however. Considerations of musical and performance style, career development, and long-term vocal health are also vital to the successful singer. This exciting new collection of essays is the first book to look at the art of singing in its totality. Written in a direct, non-techn
Author: D. B. Barton
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: sleuth, singing
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2005-09-07
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0595354521
ISBN-13: 9780595354528
A cold-blooded murder was just committed on a luxurious British cruise ship returning from the sun-drenched Caribbean islands of Martinique, Barbados, and St. Maarten. The ship’s controller was bludgeoned with a ten-pound dumbbell in the fitness center. The victim was an especially nasty character who took great pleasure in advising headquarters which departments on the Pegasus fell short of their monetary goals. It’s no wonder he was killed. Alec DunBarton, a Scottish bank auditor, comes to the rescue of Flagship Cruise Line to examine the controller’s books. Although
