So You Want to Sing Spirituals

A Guide for Performers

AvRandye Jones

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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With their rich and complicated history, spirituals hold a special place in the American musical tradition. This soul-stirring musical form is irresistible to singers seeking to diversify their performance repertoire, but it is also riddled with controversy, especially for singers of non-African descent. Singer and historian Randye Jones welcomes singers of all backgrounds into the style while she explores its folk song roots and transformation into choral and solo vocal concert repertoire. Profiling key composers and pioneers of the genre, Jones also discusses the use of dialect and other controversial performance considerations. Contributed chapters address elements of collaborative piano, studio teaching, choral arrangement, voice science, and vocal health as they apply to the performance of spirituals.The So You Want to Sing series is produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing Spirituals features online supplemental material on the NATS website.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-10-14
Mått:150 x 230 x 23 mm
Vikt:481 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:So You Want to Sing
Antal sidor:314
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781538107348

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Randye Jones first learned about spirituals at her home church in North Carolina. She has been a presenter at the Research, Education, Activism, and Performance National Conference on Spirituals and conferences of the African American Art Song Alliance, the National Association of Negro Musicians, the Music Library Association, and the Phenomenon of Singing International Symposium.

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By drawing upon her own knowledge and experience in both researching and performing spirituals, and by including the input of several other recognized experts in the field, Jones provides a valuable, all-angles exploration of this underperformed genre with this publication.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: What Are Spirituals?Chapter 2: From Cotton Field to Concert HallChapter 3: Pioneers of the Concert SpiritualChapter 4: Song LiteratureChapter 5: Using Dialect in PerformanceChapter 6: Must You Be Black to Sing Spirituals?Chapter 7: Collaborating with Pianists, Casey RobardsChapter 8: African American Art Song, Emery Stephens & Caroline HeltonChapter 9: Spirituals: Interpretative Guidelines for Studio Teachers, Barbara SteinhausChapter 10: Choral Arrangements of Spirituals, Patricia J. TriceChapter 11: Spirituals: America’s Contribution to World Sacred Music, Timothy W. SharpeChapter 12: Gaining Perspective: A Linguistic Approach to Dialect, Felicia BarberChapter 13: Singing and Voice Science, Scott McCoyChapter 14: Vocal Health for Singers, Wendy LeBorgne