Voice for Performance: Training the Actor's Voice

by Linda Gates

Overview

A valuable guide that teaches students and professional performers alike how to train their most essential feature—their voice.

For voice performers—from actors and singers to newscasters and radio hosts—even a minor voice disorder can have a significant impact on their career. Vocal training is vital if the performer wants to use his or her voice effectively and repeatedly.

In Voice for Performance: Training the Actor’s Voice, Third Edition, Linda Gates addresses key elements of voice and speech—respiration, vibration, resonation, and articulation—in a straightforward style to produce voices that are clear, articulate, and easily heard. While the focus of the book is on training the voice for performance in live theatre, it also features guidance for students who want to expand their vocal skills for work in radio, podcasts, television, film, voice acting, and even online meetings and presentations.

This third edition features extensive updates based on advances in voice science, new pedagogical approaches, new media, and the latest technology. It also includes a companion website, voiceforperformance.com, with videos and audio of the author demonstrating the exercises, making this book a must-have for all voice performers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538163795
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/11/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	1,020,512
File size:	990 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Linda Gates is the Head of Voice in the Department of Theatre at Northwestern University. She has taught voice and speech across the United States and in the UK and Europe. Gates has worked as a voice and dialect coach both on and off-Broadway, in Chicago, regional theatre, opera, and in film. She has worked with renowned actors and singers such as Meryl Streep, Plácido Domingo, Sigourney Weaver, Rosemary Harris, and Nick Offerman. She lives in Chicago.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter I. The Actor’s Voice

Chapter II. Relaxation and Body Alignment

Chapter III. Breathing

Chapter IV. Resonance

Chapter V. The Sounds of English

Chapter VI. Special Speech Issues

Chapter VII. Keeping Your Voice Healthy

Chapter VIII. The Electronic Voice

Chapter IX. Occupational Demands on the Actor’s Voice

Chapter X. An Approach to Text

Chapter XI. The Singing Voice

Bibliography

Notes

Index

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Voice for Performance is complete, up to date, and very effective, whether used in a supervised class or for private study. Linda has taken a complex subject and made it approachable to a wide range of students. Voice for Performance is on a level with the very best books on the subject. This is the text I will use throughout my teaching career.

Bill Reed