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Tables of Contents for Composing for Voice
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
List of Musical Examples
xiii
1 The Voice Today: An Evaluation
1
14
Vocal versus Non-Vocal
1
6
The View Back
7
8
2 How the Voice Works: A Composer's Perspective
15
28
Vocal Categories
19
2
Legato and Leaps
21
5
Air and Breath
26
3
Dynamics
29
3
Flexibility and Stamina
32
3
Composing Between the Notes
35
5
Extended Voice Techniques
40
3
3 Voice/Text/Music
43
32
Text and Music
43
5
Text and Voice
48
5
The Nature of Language
53
2
The Nature of the Singing Voice
55
1
Vowels
56
2
Diphthongs
58
1
Consonants
59
1
Sibilants
60
1
Vibrato
61
2
Text Effect
63
1
Nudity and Performance
63
2
Text Underlay in Scores
65
3
Singing and Speaking
68
7
4 The Singer and the Actor
75
10
Differences Between Singers and Actors
75
6
Similarities Between Singers and Actors
81
1
The Synthesis of Music, Dance, and Drama
82
3
5 Considerations of Style
85
56
The Last Romantic Artist
85
5
A Shopping List
90
4
Some Composers' Solutions
94
47
6 Singers on Composers
141
12
Singers' Biographies
141
12
7 Conclusions and a Way Forward
153
24
The Ultimate Challenge of the Voice
153
5
How Our Audience Hears
158
2
Male and Female Voices: Reason versus Emotion
160
4
Going for a Song
164
5
Toward a Compositional Theory
169
8
8 Educational Activities
177
14
Street Songs
180
1
Composing on One Note
181
1
Songs without Words
181
1
Words without Songs
182
1
Identical Texts
182
2
Time Limits
184
1
One Breath
184
1
Writing a Song for Children to Hear
184
1
Improvisation
185
1
Further Projects
186
5
Appendix 1: Vocal Nomenclature
191
4
Soprano
191
1
Mezzo-Soprano
192
1
Alto
192
1
Male Alto/Countertenor
192
1
Tenor
192
1
Baritone
193
1
Bass
193
2
Appendix 2: An Application of the International Phonetic Alphabet
195
2
Bibliography and Further Reading
197
2
Index
199