Think Feel Sing: A Clear Path to Easy Singing - Softcover

Spoto, Franco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1535607947 ISBN 13: 9781535607940

Publisher: Dunham Road Productions, 2017

Synopsis

Priced well below the cost of a single private lesson, THINK FEEL SING offers the seeds of a long and detailed course of study.There are so many books about singing but so few about the physical voice, its look, its feel. If you want to play the violin, you buy one built to function. You can hold it, tune it, learn fingering and bowing techniques and, given a musical imagination, become some kind of artist with it. Do you know what your vocal body looks like, feels like? Until you do, to what are you applying your musical imagination? In THINK FEEL SING you will find answers to that question and many others. Singing is not about being a “star” unless you want it to be. Singing is part of your nature, an expression of your consciousness, an emotional release, a tonic for your psyche, the primal scream gone pretty. The journey of self-discovery of your melodic nature can be rested whenever you like. Just because you workout in a gym doesn’t mean that you are dreaming of a Mr. Universe crown. There are so many plateaus after becoming “fit”. Hang out where you are most comfortable. The workout that Franco Spoto proposes here, after basic understanding of support, breath pressure and feeling the physical voice, can help you become the most natural jazz, folk or pop singer. The more diligently you work at it, the more balanced, strong and flexible your natural voice develops and, given those properties uniquely your own, the wider the choices of music open to you. This book offers a vehicle for understanding your voice and becoming the best shower singer that you can imagine or achieving stardom in the opera house and all local stops in between. It’s about you.

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About the Author

In his mid teens, Franco Spoto was fascinated with the sounds that a human voice could make. At first inspired by recordings of Mario Lanza, Enrico Caruso, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, his fascination soon led to his own joy in singing and curiosity about the body as instrument for all voices. Research since his teens into the body, the mind and the spirit of singing, while by no means finished, culminates in the first book of what is planned as a series, SINGING, Nature’s Gift to You. With formal education at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and The Juilliard School, his CV includes a faculty position at Bluffton University, solo engagements with Leonard Bernstein and The New York Philharmonic, Aaron Copland and Maxim Shostokovich on the one hand and Sammy Cahn on the other. From a Broadway revival of The Most Happy Fella to Verdi’s Requiem, Britten’s Canticle III for Tenor, Horn and Piano, Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin and sold-out engagements at Caesar’s, Atlantic City singing everything from Weill’s “Speak Low” to Verdi’s “Libiamo”, Franco Spoto has been able to enjoy performing an unusually wide variety of musical styles. A Sullivan Foundation and Puccini Foundation grantee, Franco currently lives in East Chatham, NY, teaching there and in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dunham Road Productions
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1535607947
• ISBN 13: 9781535607940
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136