Vocal Techniques for the Instrumentalist 2nd Edition

Authors

Amy Rosine, Kansas State UniversityFollow

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Description

Vocal Techniques, the course title used at many institutions, is essentially a voice class for instrumentalists, and is often a required course for instrumental music education majors seeking all-level certification. Students take at least one Vocal Techniques course to learn proper singing technique along with basic pedagogy. Some courses include teaching techniques as they apply to adolescent singers. The focus of the course is the development of the individual singing voice. This includes breathing, tone production, articulation, musicality and textual expression and understanding. Students also develop confidence in front of groups, improve their general vocal quality, and learn that a healthy voice serves them well in general and performance classrooms.

The purpose of this text is to teach instrumental music education students about vocal production as it applies to solo singing. Beginning with a foundational understanding of breathing, singers will learn about the vocal instrument (anatomy), how to create clear, pleasant, tone (phonation and resonance), pronounce words clearly (articulation and diction) and the similarities and differences of singing technique when compared to that of their major instrument. This is the first textbook to explore teaching voice as it directly pertains to playing an instrument

ISBN

978-1-944548-40-7

Publication Date

10-7-2021

Edition Statement

Vocal Techniques for the Instrumentalist is also available in ebook form at: https://kstatelibraries.pressbooks.pub/vocal-techniques/ and Vocal Techniques for the Instrumentalist can be found in the New Prairie Press Pressbooks Catalog.

Previous Editions

The first edition of Vocal Techniques for the Instrumentalist can be found on New Prairie Press at https://newprairiepress.org/ebooks/25/.

Publisher

New Prairie Press

City

Manhattan

Editor

Sandra Mosteller

Keywords

music education, vocal techniques, singing techniques, breathing, tone production, teaching voice, singing instrumentalists

Disciplines

Music | Music Education

Recommended Citation

Rosine, Amy, "Vocal Techniques for the Instrumentalist 2nd Edition" (2021). NPP eBooks. 44.
https://newprairiepress.org/ebooks/44

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License