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.
