Speaking With Skill: A Skills Based Approach to Speech Training (Performance Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (641 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 140815689X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Janet Madelle Feindel - Associate Professor of Voice and Alexander, Carnegie Mellon University.Speaking with Skill marks a fundamental change in the pedagogy of speech training for actors and speakers. The method employed in this book is already and increasingly being used by instructors on major actor training programs in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK.. It presents a skills-based approach to speech training and offers a wider range of techniques and a more integrated approach to speech actions and phonetic transcription than are found in other speech texts for theatre. Dudley Knight is one of the most respected voice and speech teachers in North America and highly regarded internationally. Speaking with Skill reintegrates speech training with the allied fields of linguistics and voice science and represents the first serious reexamination of the archaic standards and pedagogy that
He conducts workshops and lectures on voice and speech for actors and voice teachers nationwide and is Currently Editor-in-Chief of Voice and Speech Review.. He is certified as master teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and has enjoyed a 40 year career as voice, speech, text, and dialect teacher and voice/text director for professional theatre. He has had an extensive stage career that includes major roles in regional theatre
Al Espinoza said A great book for developing kinesthesia/proprioception. This is a great book for those who want to develop kinesthesia/proprioception of various articulators (tongue, jaw, lips, buccinator, etc). There are detailed exercises to isolate every muscle involved in speech production. For instance, a typical phonetics talks about vowels in terms of tongue height and front/backness; but the question is how to feel where your tongue's po. Such a great resource, and a good read to boot Jeremy Sortore Such a great resource, and a good read to boot! A great marriage of factual information and imaginative presentation. This is the only book I can assign my speech students with no reservations-- I don't have to clarify or provide caveats about the information here. I don't have to worry about any implicit linguistic bias-- the author tackles that can of worms from the very b. Wonderful Mendy McMasters It's a blend of academic brilliance and practical application. Dudley's sense of humor jumps off the page and catches you by surprise. I highly recommend it for actors and teachers.
Dudley Knight is one of the most respected voice and speech teachers in North America and highly regarded internationally. -- Janet Madelle Feindel, Professor of Voice and Alexander, Carnegie Mellon University, and author of The Thought Propels the Sound