Shifting Voices

Shifting Voices
Author: Agatha Schwartz
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0773560521

"Previous scholarly attention to Hapsburg culture has emphasized its German-centred aspects, Shifting Voices introduces a new focus on the Hapsburg Empire's rich Hungarian component through a comparative: analysis of women's literary contributions in Austria and a Hungary." --Résumé de l'éditeur.

Voice Work

Voice Work
Author: Christina Shewell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2013-07-03
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1118697383

Voice Work: Art and Science in Changing Voices is a key work that addresses the theoretical and experiential aspects common to the practical vocal work of the three major voice practitioner professions - voice training, singing teaching, and speech and language pathology. The first half of the book describes the nature of voice work along the normal-abnormal voice continuum, reviews ways in which the mechanism and function of the voice can be explored, and introduces the reader to an original model of voice assessment, suitable for all voice practitioners. The second half describes the theory behind core aspects of voice and provides an extensive range of related practical voice work ideas. Throughout the book, there are a number of case studies drawn from the author's own experiences and a companion website, providing audio clips to illustrate aspects of the text, can be found at www.wiley.com/go/shewell.

Shifting

Shifting
Author: Charisse Jones
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2009-01-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 006197711X

Commemorating its 2oth year in print with a new Introduction and updated content, Shifting explores the many identities Black women must adopt in various spaces to succeed in America. Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of Black women feel pressure to compromise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by altering the expectations they have for themselves or their outer appearance. They modify their speech. They shift "white" as they head to work in the morning and "Black" as they come back home each night. They shift inward, internalizing the searing pain of the negative stereotypes that they encounter daily. And sometimes they shift by fighting back. In commemoration of its twentieth year in print with a new Introduction and updated content throughout Shifting is a much-needed, clear, and comprehensive portrait of the reality of Black women's lives today.

Voices and Books in the English Renaissance

Voices and Books in the English Renaissance
Author: Jennifer Richards
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2019
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198809069

"Two ideas lie at the heart of this study and its claim that we need a new history of reading: that voices in books can affect us deeply ; that printed books can be brought to life with the voice. Voices and Books offers a new history of reading focussed on the oral and voice-aware silent reader, rather than the historical reader we have privileged in the last few decades, who is invariably male, silent, and alone. It recovers the vocality of education for boys and girls in Renaissance England, and the importance of training in pronuntiatio (delivery) for oral-aural literary culture. It offers the first attempt to recover the voice-and tone-from textual sources. It explores what happens when we bring voice to text, how vocal tone realizes or changes textual meaning, and how the literary writers of the past tried to represent their own and others' voices, as well as manage and exploit the voices of their readers. It offers fresh readings of the key Tudor authors who anticipated oral readers: John Bale, Anne Askew, William Baldwin, Thomas Nashe. And it aims to rethink what a printed book can be, searching the printed page for vocal cues, and exploring the neglected role of the voice in the printing process"-- Provided by publisher.

Changing Voices

Changing Voices
Author: Robert Donald Brodie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1909
Genre: American poetry
ISBN:

Warm-ups for Changing Voices

Warm-ups for Changing Voices
Author: Dan Andersen
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Choral singing
ISBN: 9781495087981

As any middle school choir director knows, change is the name of the game! A changing voice is just one of countless physiological and emotional changes that middle school students experience. Knowing the general limits of male and female changing voices, as well as the specific capabilities of your students, are two keys to building healthy -- and happy! -- middle school singers. This book is an accessible, must-read resource for any middle-school choir director looking to foster stronger, more capable musicians, and offers 25 warm-up exercises along with customized grade-specific tips for using them along with free access to accompanying audio recordings--Publisher's description.

The Boy's Changing Voice

The Boy's Changing Voice
Author: Terry J. Barham
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1991
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457457791

For the middle school/junior high choral teacher. This text takes out much of the guesswork of teaching boys whose voices are changing. Includes testing methods, extensive warm-up and voice development exercises, self-image concepts, an extensive list of appropriate choral works, and other welcome information.

Geometry and Topology in Music

Geometry and Topology in Music
Author: Moreno Andreatta
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2024-11-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1040156703

This book introduces path-breaking applications of concepts from mathematical topology to music-theory topics including harmony, chord progressions, rhythm, and music classification. Contributions address topics of voice leading, Tonnetze (maps of notes and chords), and automatic music classification. Focusing on some geometrical and topological aspects of the representation and formalisation of musical structures and processes, the book covers topological features of voice-leading geometries in the most recent advances in this mathematical approach to representing how chords are connected through the motion of voices, leading to analytically useful simplified models of high-dimensional spaces; It generalizes the idea of a Tonnetz, a geometrical map of tones or chords, and shows how topological aspects of these maps can correspond to many concepts from music theory. The resulting framework embeds the chord maps of neo-Riemannian theory in continuous spaces that relate chords of different sizes and includes extensions of this approach to rhythm theory. It further introduces an application of topology to automatic music classification, drawing upon both static topological representations and time-series evolution, showing how static and dynamic features of music interact as features of musical style. This volume will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of music, music analyses, music composition, mathematical music theory, computational musicology, and music informatics. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Mathematics and Music.

The Book of Lamentations

The Book of Lamentations
Author: Joshua A. Berman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2023-07-31
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 1108424414

This volume interprets Lamentations as a systematic and carefully structured work, rather than randomly expressed theological positions.

The Poetics of Childhood

The Poetics of Childhood
Author: Roni Natov
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135721777

The Poetics of Childhood investigates the sensibility of childhood and the ways writers try to recapture it. It explores the earliest conceptions of innocence and the development of literature about children through contemporary times. It encompasses the pastoral, the dark pastoral, the anti-pastoral; it addresses picture books, fantasy, and realism. It looks with originality at the literature of childhood, inclusive of children's literature and literature about childhood, so that the child and adult can be seen reflexively--the child in the adult and the various stages of childhood as they are remembered and retained in adulthood. It confronts issues of primal and socially constructed desire adn the use of childhood to talk about desire. It is a poetics, a way of imagining the experience of childhood and explores childhood as a particulary fluid and porous time, it also addresses issues of creativity. This is an essential reference for teachers, parents, artists, and writers.