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| Introduction: How to Use This Book | |
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| Getting to Know Your Voice | |
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| Sign In | |
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| The Voice Speaks | |
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| The Name Game | |
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| Tell Me About the Time You ... | |
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| Stretching, Centering, Releasing, and Aligning | |
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| Neck Stretches | |
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| Rest Position | |
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| Side Stretches at the Barre | |
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| Advanced Triangle Pose | |
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| Balance and Alignment Using the Wall | |
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| Twelve-Step Program for Release of Neck, Jaws, and Shoulders | |
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| Tennis Ball Torture | |
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| Breathing and Supporting | |
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| Breath Exercise | |
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| Breath Journal | |
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| Gentle-Warm Up for Breath and Body | |
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| Legs on the Chair Breathing Exercise | |
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| The "Hey!" Breath Exercise | |
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| Straw Work | |
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| Breath Flow | |
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| Awareness in the Sitting Position | |
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| Resonating | |
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| Defining the Vowel Space: The Front/Back Glide and Open/Close Slide | |
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| Throat and Neck Release on Sound | |
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| Combining Nasal Resonance with Creative Impulse | |
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| Healing Touch | |
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| Giving Voice to Your Hunger | |
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| Gliding and Sliding | |
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| To Glottalize or Not to Glottalize | |
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| The Wailing Routine | |
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| Honing the Toning | |
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| Hum and Chew--Versions One and Two | |
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| Improvisation from Primitive Sound | |
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| Vocal Mirrors | |
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| Woo Woe | |
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| The "Ha:" | |
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| The Wizard of Oz | |
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| Articulating | |
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| The Medial [t] | |
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| Tongue on the Wet Part of the Lower Lip | |
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| Consonant Conga | |
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| The Joshua Steele Exercise | |
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| Quick Articulator Warm-Up | |
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| Moving Sound | |
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| Exploring Pitch | |
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| Inflection Exercise | |
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| Pitch Stretching | |
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| The Anaconda | |
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| Sirens | |
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| Singing Exercise for Line Melody | |
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| Projecting and Calling | |
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| I Can't Hear You | |
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| The Speaker Exercise | |
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| The "Mommy" Exercise | |
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| Integrating Voice, Breath, and Text | |
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| The Deal and the Truth | |
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| Dueling Choruses | |
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| Painting the Text | |
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| The Voice Outdoors | |
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| Building a Wall | |
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| The Glove Game | |
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| The "Stupid!" Exercise | |
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| The Conduit | |
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| Breathing Out the End of the Thought Phrase | |
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| Key Word Ball Toss | |
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| Listening/Breathing Transition to Text | |
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| Lessac's Consonant Orchestra Scenes | |
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| Act Every Word | |
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| Core Belief Exercise | |
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| Integrating Voice and Movement | |
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| Gossip Hoeing | |
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| Voice Leading the Body | |
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| Connections | |
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| Jog and Sound | |
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| Elephant Walking Chant | |
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| Chewing Gum Bubble | |
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| Across the Floor | |
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| Emotional Flow | |
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| Exploring Character Voices and Dialects | |
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| The Mendlshon Twins Exercise | |
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| Developing Harmonic Timbre Through the Animal Matrix | |
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| The Portrait Project | |
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| Boxer-Briefs | |
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| List of Contributors and Exercises | |
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| CD Track Listing | |
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| Biographies | |