134 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    134 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    "The Singer’s Companion" provides both beginning and advanced students of singing with a basic, reliable, and readable introduction to the many issues focusing on training and maintaining a healthy voice. It covers all the fundamental issues faced by vocalists in all styles of music, including how to find a good teacher, work with a score, audition, and perform. Stohrer has written an essential text for students of singing, offering up-to-date, accurate, and accessible information that will be invaluable to singers and their teachers.

    Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Getting Started Chapter 2: Practicing Chapter 3: Working with the Score Chapter 4: Health and Body Awareness Chapter 5: The Complete Singer/Musician Chapter 6: A Few Words about Technique Chapter 7: Performing Chapter 8: A Brief Look at Performance Anxiety Chapter 9: Auditioning Chapter 10: Singing as a Career or Avocation Chapter 11: Philosophy of Singing Resources for More Information Performance Anxiety: An Annotated Bibliography Index

    Biography

    Sharon L. Stohrer has taught voice and the related areas of stagecraft, lyric diction and vocal pedagogy for New York University; the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York; Newberry College and Anderson University in South Carolina; and Keene State College in New Hampshire. She is active as workshop facilitator, helping musicians overcome performance anxiety.

    "Stohrer addresses all serious voice students with practical, plainly written counsel...on a bevy of topics in an eminently accessible style..." --Debra Greschner, Journal of Singing