Overview
Your voice is a powerful instrument, as individual as a fingerprint. You use it every single day, but do you know how to look after it? Or to get the best out of it? This is a Voice is a practical toolkit of step-by-step vocal exercises to help speakers and singers of all abilities transform the quality of their voice. Bursting with advice from expert vocal coaches, it covers everything from warm ups, breathing, pacing and projection to techniques for speaking with confidence and singing jazz, pop, opera - even beatboxing - with style. Whether you're a member of a choir or a professional singer, preparing for a big presentation or planning a wedding speech, This is a Voice will ensure that you make yourself heard. With a foreword by Cerys Matthews. Published in partnership with the Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death. Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive, funding over 14,000 researchers and projects in more than 70 countries. wellcomecollection.org
Full Product Details
Author: Jeremy Fisher ,
Gillyanne Kayes ,
Cerys Matthews (Presenter)
Publisher: Wellcome Collection
Imprint: Wellcome Collection
Edition: Main
Dimensions:
Width: 12.60cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 19.00cm
Weight: 0.300kg
ISBN: 9781999809027
ISBN 10: 1999809025
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 23 August 2018
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Jeremy Fisher is a performance coach and vocal trainer with more than 30 years of experience. He has trained actors, performers and singers in opera and West End musicals such as Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera. Gillyanne Kayes is a singing voice expert, voice researcher and author with a PhD on female singing voice. Steven Connor (introduction) is a Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of Cambridge who has written extensively on the history of the voice, sound and music. Cerys Matthews is a singer, songwriter, author and broadcaster, awarded an MBE for her services to music.
