The Singing And Acting Handbook Av Thomas De Mallet Burgess, Nicholas Skilbeck

This book directly addresses all performers who sing and act, whether in opera, musical theatre or music-theatre. It provides a innovative resource for performers, directors, workshop leaders and teachers.The Singing and Acting Handbook helps the performer to 12velop the skills required to act and sing at the same time It will strengthen the performer in individual areas such as imagination, spontaneity, awareness, and concentration the exercises look beyond the separate arts of singing and acting, and help build up an awareness of how the two can combine to form a single, powerful, expression the games explore the coordination of rhythm, pulse, pitch, harmony, text, emotional impulse, and characterisation on stage unique amongst practical handbooks, this volume addresses crucial topics such as the unification of real time and musical time; moving from speech to song; sustaining emotion while singing; and combining free dramatic expression with fixed musical structures it is a long-awaited and urgently needed set of resources for the performer.