Vocal Warm-ups, 200 Exercises for Chorus and Solo Singers

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Vocal Warm-ups, 200 Exercises for Chorus and Solo Singers

What choral conductor or soloist has not looked around for new ideas for warming up the voice? Here are 200 suggestions all at once!And these creative exercises do more than just warm up the voice: they help to relax the body, train the ear and develop an awareness of dynamics and rhythm.Klaus Heizmann's collection is a wonderful new resource of ideas and techniques: practical, varied, challenging, relaxing and stimulating. I am always looking for new ideas, as I like to use a different set of warm-ups at every rehearsal with my choirs, and I tend to choose specific exercises to suit the repertoire for the day. This collection gives us 200 excellent tools-of-the-trade; they are clearly labeled, intelligently set out, well-designed and extremely useful. (Simon Carrington, Director of Choral Activities, New England Conservatory since 2001; Director of Choral Activities, The University of Kansas 1994-2001; Founder and co-director of the King's Singers 1968-1993)

CONTENIDO:

Physical warm-up exercises
The right posture
Model warm-up routines
Breathing exercises
Exercises for deliberate diaphragmatic breathing
Exercises for relaxing and opening the vocal tract
Vocal warm-up exercises
Exercises for vowel formation and modification
Register transition exercises
Resonance exercises
Exercises for relaxing and activating the lips
Exercises in Dynamics
Warm-up exercises combined with ear training
Warm-up exercises combined with exercises for developing a sense of rhythm
Suggestions for accompaniment and performance