1st Edition

Vocal Traditions Training in the Performing Arts

Edited By Rockford Sansom Copyright 2023
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

Vocal Traditions: Training in the Performing Arts explores the 18 most influential voice training techniques and methodologies of the past 100 years. This extensive international collection highlights historically important voice teachers, contemporary leaders in the field, and rising schools of thought. Each vocal tradition showcases its instructional perspective, offering backgrounds on the... Read more

Introduction: Framing the "Vocal Traditions" Series

Rockford Sansom

1. Cicely Berry and the Central School Tradition

David Carey

2. Linklater Voice Method

Kristin Linklater

3. Rodenburg Voice and Speech

Amy Leavitt

4. Fitzmaurice Voicework

Jeff Morrison, Saul Kotzubei and Tyler Seiple

5. Lessac Kinesensics

Marth Munro et al.

6. Knight-Thompson Speechwork

Philip Thompson, Andrea Caban and Erik Singer

7. Estill Voice Training®

Kimberly M. Steinhauer and Mary McDonald Klimek

8. The Roy Hart Tradition

Kevin Crawford and Noah Pikes

9. The Sharpe/Haydn Method

Edda Sharpe and Jan Haydn Rowles

10. Miller Voice Method

Scott Miller, John Patrick, Liam Joynt and Kristi Dana

11. A Voice Pedagogy Based in Middendorf Breathwork

Jeff Crockett

12. Vocal Combat Technique

D’Arcy Smith and Chaslee Schweitzer

13. Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method

Andrew R. White

14. Breathwork Africa

Marj Murray and Ela Manga

15. Steiner Speech

Geoffrey Norris

16. Seven Pillars Acting Technique

Sonya Cooke et al.

17. Vibrant Voice Technique

Pamela Prather

18. Acting and Singing with Archetypes

Bill J. Adams and Christine Morris

Biography

Rockford Sansom, PhD, is a voice coach in theater and a voice trainer in business and politics. He is Editor of the Voice and Speech Review and has published The History of Voice Pedagogy: Multidisciplinary Reflections on Training.