 | Vocal Wisdom: Maxims of Giovanni Battista Lamperti by Giovanni B. Lamperti
Buy new: $9.56 / Used from: $5.45 The resource for classical singers - and for others who want to share the eternal vocal wisdom of Lamperti. This book is almost like the voice teachers' "inside secret." We all have one tucked away, somewhere. The answers are in there.
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 | Basics of Vocal Pedagogy by Clifton Ware
Buy new: $68.75 / Used from: $52.99 One of the clearest and most concise books on singing, this volume is intended to train voice teachers about the art. This wonderful book includes a terrific glossary and nice illustrations. Some to-the-point voice science that is really helpful for creative types who may not easily relate to the science of singing.
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 | The Structure of Singing: System and Art of Vocal Technique by Richard Miller
Buy new: $90.95 / Used from: $85.07 For the serious singer.
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 | Singing: The Mechanism and the Technic by William Vennard
Buy new: $35.10 / Used from: $24.95 This was quite the resource when it first appeared. Still a wonderful reference book.
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 | Training Tenor Voices by Richard Miller
Buy new: $85.30 / Used from: $74.95 |
 | Training Soprano Voices by Richard Miller
Buy new: $36.00 / Used from: $46.87 |
 | Find Your Voice by Jo Thompson
Buy used from: $16.21 Accessible. Pop and Rock singers take note of what Jo Thompson says. Singing that requires pushing and screaming and vocal destruction is not fun - unless that's your idea of fun. Thompson lays out the truth about singing artistically, and singing in a user-friendly way. The reading is user-friendly, too.
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 | Singing for Dummies by Pamelia S. Phillips
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $5.33 I admit it. I like this book. Phillips has included a lot of good, sound advice in these pages. While I may not agree with 100% of what she has written, I'm right there with her on a good portion of what she has to say. confession. I've had the book for some time, now, and I STILL haven't listened to the CD. Who knows what's on there! (Let me know.<g>)
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 | The Diagnosis and Correction of Vocal Faults: A Manual for Teachers of Singing and for Choir Directors (with accompanying CD of sample vocal faults) by James C. McKinney
Buy new: $24.26 / Used from: $19.03 |
 | Solutions for Singers: Tools for Performers and Teachers by Richard Miller
Buy new: $28.80 / Used from: $25.00 |
 | Practical Method of Italian Singing: For Soprano or Tenor
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $3.17 The "other" book that every singer should have and use. Vaccai or Vaccaj is the ultimate exercise/method book in the form of short songs. I first sang the Vaccai exercises 37 years ago. I didn't know what they were all about back then. Now I know! Understood, practiced and executed as they should be, these gems will help set a foundation technique upon which the singer can always rely.
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 | Teaching Kids to Sing by Kenneth H. Phillips
Buy new: $81.56 / Used from: $64.43 OK. I had to include this one, because so many children are embarking on voice lessons at too tender an age. (Parents, please wait until they are some age with the word "teen" at the end of it.) I have used techniques in this book to help some of my teen and adult students with the basic principles of breathing and releasing a tone. A terrific resource for any classroom singing teacher.
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 | How to Train Singers/Book and Tape by Larra Browning Henderson
Buy used from: $10.99 This one has some good ideas.
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 | How to Sing by Graham Hewitt
Buy new: $9.56 / Used from: $3.40 This one has some good ideas.
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| English, French, German and Italian Techniques of Singing: A Study in National Tonal Preferences and How They Relate to Functional Efficiency by Richard Miller
Buy used from: $29.00 Get this if you can. It will help straighten you out on all of those differences in the training you've received. Dyed-in-the-wool ideas of tone production and breathing may be different in different parts of the world. Sometimes the difference in training is purely semantics. Sometimes the training really is different.
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 | National Schools of Singing: English, French, German, and Italian Techniques of Singing Revisited by Richard Miller
Buy new: $36.50 / Used from: $24.20 If I'm not mistaken, this is just another rendering of the other book by Miller of a similar title. Not looking at my shelf, at the moment, I believe this is the one I have. See listing for "English, French, German and Italian Techniques of Singing: a study in national tonal preferences and how they relate to functional efficiency."
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| Vocal Development Through Organic Imagery by William D. Leyerle
Buy used from: $175.00 This has some good ideas.
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