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| Introduction: Welcome to singing | |
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| The Beginning | |
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| The Basics | |
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| Posture Listening to yourself | |
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| Learning a Song: The ABC s of Do Re Mi | |
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| Learning the music | |
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| Learning the words | |
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| Putting it all together | |
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| Breath Support: Fueling the voice | |
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| The Respiratory System | |
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| The Diaphragm | |
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| The Intercostal Muscles | |
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| The Abdominal Muscles | |
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| The Process of Breathing | |
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| Breath Support | |
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| More Than Anatomy: The ins and outs of how we sing | |
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| The Parts of the Larynx | |
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| The Vocal Folds | |
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| The Arytenoids | |
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| The Cricoid Cartilage | |
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| The Thyroid Cartilage | |
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| The Hyoid Bone | |
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| The Epiglottis Resonance | |
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| The Pharynx Regsiters | |
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| Vocalizing: It s not just a fancy word | |
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| Basic Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Practicing: A good habit to get into What should you do when you practice? | |
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| Where should you practice? | |
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| How should you practice? | |
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| How long should you practice? | |
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| Vocal Technique: How We Use | |
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| What We Know Identifying a Good Technique | |
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| Refining the Song: Putting Everything Together | |
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| Score mapping Memorization | |
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| Performing a Song: More than notes on a page | |
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| The Painter s palette and vocal colors | |
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| Expressing the text | |
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| The eyes & face: The true gateway to our souls | |
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| Gestures: Making them effective | |
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| Living With Your Voice: Vocal Do s and Don ts Vocal Don ts Vocal Do s Song Anthology | |
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| Introduction to the Song Anthology | |
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| The Songs | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Glossary | |
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| About the Author | |
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| About the Pianist | |
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| Song Anthology | |
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| List Sacred Music | |
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| Amazing Grace (John Newton) | |
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| Angels Through the Night (arr. Philip Kern) | |
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| Ave Maria (High) (Franz Schubert) | |
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| Ave Maria (Low) (Franz Schubert) | |
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| I Walked Today Where Jesus Walked (Geoffery O Hara) | |
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| The Old Rugged Cross (George Bennard) | |
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| Star of the East (Amanda Kennedy) | |
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| When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Lowell Mason) | |
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| Oldies but Goodies Beautiful Dreamer (Stephen Foster) | |
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| Because (Gui d Hardelot) | |
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| Dixie (Dan Emmett) | |
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| Dreamy Hawaii (F. W. Vandersloot) | |
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| Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (Stephen Foster) | |
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| The John Brown Song (Traditional) | |
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| Leave Me with a Smile (Chas. Koehler & Earl Burtnett) | |
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| M-O-T-H-E-R: A Word That Means the World to Me (Theodore Morse) | |
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| Over There (George M. Cohan) | |
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| Smilin Through (Arthur A. Penn) | |
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| Tenting on the Old Camp Ground (Walter Kittredge) | |
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| The Yankee Doodle Boy (George M. Cohan) | |
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| You re a Grand Old Flag (George M. Cohan) | |
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| Popular Music Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman (Michael Camen) | |
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| How Do I Live (Diane Warren) Minnie the Moocher (Cab Calloway and Irving Mills) | |
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| My Heart Will Go On (James Horner) | |
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| R-E-S-P-E-C-T (Otis Redding) | |
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| What a Wonderful World (George Wheiss and Bob Thiele) | |
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| You Are So Beautiful (Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher) | |
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| You Raise Me Up (Brendan Graham and Ralph Loveland) | |
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| Popular Stage Music Bring Him Home from Les Miserables (Claude-Michelle Sch nberg) | |
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| Goodnight, My Someone from The Music Man (Meredith Wilson) | |
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| If I Were a Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof (Jerry Bach) | |
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| The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha (Mitch Leigh) | |
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| Johanna from Sweeney Todd (Stephen Sondheim) | |
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| Memory from Cats (Andrew Lloyd Webber) | |
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| My Funny Valentine from Babes In Arms (Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart) | |
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| On My Own from Les Miserables (Claude-Michelle Sch nberg)</ | |