The Right to Speak: Working with the Voice

Half Title\nSeries Page\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nForeword\nPreface\nIntroduction\n	Voice work is for everybody\nPart I: The Right to Speak\n	Chapter 1: Declaring Your Vocal Rights\n		Snap judgements\n		Whose right is it anyway?\n		Making sound and sense\n		A quick look at the problem\n	Chapter 2: ‘God Doesn’t Mind A Bum Note’\n		Self-judgement\n		A craving for instant results\n		The myth of the ‘bad voice’\n		The myth of the ‘beautiful voice’\n		The role of the voice teacher\n	Chapter 3: The Roots of Habits\n		Physical interrelations\n		Restrictive habits\n		The birth of habits\n		Sudden freedom of heightened moments\n		Natural release\n		Holding on to habits\n		Habits linked to fear and sexuality\n		Habits that manipulate and control\n	Chapter 4: The Growth of Habits\n		Suffer the little children to sound like me\n		Stuttering\n		Adolescence\n		Different voices\n		Middle years into later years\n	Chapter 5: Settling into Habits\n		Habitual roles\n		The glass of fashion and the mould of form\n		Fashionable sounds or speech impediments\n		Class attitudes\n		Physical injuries and illnesses\n		Environment and geography\n		Family\n		Friends and peer groups\n		Fitting in\n		Male and female differences\n			Women\n			Men\n	Chapter 6: Deep Habits and Release\n		The terrors of deep habits\n		Laughter\n		Received attitudes\n		The right sound attitude\n		Vocal imperialism\n		Questions about your listening habits\n		A final thought on habits: A habit to cultivate\n			Generosity\nPart II: Working with the Voice\n	Chapter 7: An Owner’s Manual of the Voice\n		The necessity of technique and craft\n		A quick checklist of the voice\n		The arc of breath\n		A finely woven tapestry\n		Vocal personality\n		Working with the body\n		Body language\n			Posture\n				A. Head\n				B. Throat and shoulders\n				C. Upper chest\n				D. Spine\n				E. Abdomen\n				F. Knees\n				G. Feet\n		The centred position\n		Recentring\n		Being rooted\n		The knees\n		The spine\n		Shoulders and upper chest\n		Head position\n		The jaw\n		The tongue\n		The soft palate\n		Breath\n		The natural breath\n		Breathing faults\n		How much breath?\n		Keep breathing\n		Breath tension\n		The thinking breath\n		The good news about breath\n		Breath support\n		The link between support and connection\n		Freeing and placing the voice\n		The trapped voice\n			A. The push\n			B. The clamp\n			C. The glottal attack\n			D. Devoicing\n			E. The pull back\n	Chapter 8: The Voice Workout\n		Floor work\n			1. Foundation exercise\n			2. Relaxation\n			3. Repeat relaxation\n			4. Centring\n			5. Releasing the neck, shoulders, face and spine\n				A. Neck and shoulders\n				B. Face and jaw\n				C. The spine\n			6. Expansion release exercises\n			7. Deep relaxation\n		Breathing exercises\n			8. Foundation exercises\n				A. Stretch I\n				B. Stretch II\n				C. Stretch III\n				D. Combined stretch\n			9. Flexibility exercises\n			10. Capacity and control exercises\n			11. Placing and locating the breath\n			12. Extended flexibility\n			13. Extended capacity and control\n			14. Support and connection\n		The telltale signs of support loss\n			15. Freeing, warming up and placing the voice\n				A. Freeing\n				B. Warming up\n				C. Placing the voice\n			16. Putting it all together\n			17. Range\n			18. Stretching the range\n				Working through the breaks\n			19. The centre of the voice – optimum pitch\n			20. Resonance or vocal tone\n			21. Volume control, level and projection\n				A. Outside noise and acoustics\n				B. Levels within an emotion\n	Chapter 9: Speech and Phonetics\n		Sounds into words\n		Aim of speech\n			1. Foundation exercises\n				A. The face\n				B. The jaw\n				C. The tongue\n				D. The soft palate\n			2. Placing consonants\n			3. Vowels\n				The neutral vowel\n			4. Phonetics\n		Phonetic symbols\n			Consonants\n			Vowels\n	Chapter 10: Working Further with the Voice\n		Dialects and accents\n			Compromising an accent\n		Listening\n			A. Individual exercises\n			B. Group exercises\n		Vocal warm-ups\n			A. Preparation\n			B. Basic routine\n			C. Some adaptations\n		Vocalizing heightened emotions\n			A. Basic exercise\n			B. Screaming\n			C. Laughing\n		Singing\n		Chorus speaking\n		Sight-readings or cold readings\n		Recording\n		Assessing vocal demands and preparing for them\n		Marking and saving the voice\n		General health and care of the voice\n			A. List of critical warnings\n			B. Loss of voice\n			C. Regular prevention\n		Professional voice training\n		Some final thoughts\nIndex