I've almost completed an annotated vocal pedagogy bibliography in HTML
format. I can send it to you if you want(I'm a 44 year old baritone with
very limited pedagogical experience, however). Our prof. uses The Structure
of Singing by Richard Miller, which I can recommend. In my searching I have
discovered a few books which stand out: Dynamics of the Singing Voice by
Meribeth Bunch doesn't have vocal exercises, but it has very clear
illustrations of vocal anatomy and descriptions of phenomena; Training
tenor voices, by R. Miller, is good not just for tenors, particularily
since it interprets sonagrams nicely - the recent Training soprano voices
goes even further in this respect. Every book I've ever read about singing
has something I can disagree with, so I would advise: don't look for
perfection, nor set up any authority as the final one.
john
At 04:43 PM 12/11/00 -0500, you wrote:
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>What are some good Vocal Lit books? What do you profs use in your Vocal Lit
>classes and pedagogy courses?
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>Thanks much.
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>Carol Spradling
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John Blyth
Baritono robusto e lirico
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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