Beautiful Singing: "mind warp moments" Updated and Expanded Edition Digital Download
Clayne Robison is a Professor Emeritus of Voice at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where he has taught since 1973. He holds Bachelors degrees in English literature and vocal performance from BYU, a Juris Doctor from Harvard, and a Master of Music in orchestral conducting and a Doctor of Musical Arts in opera production from the University of Washington.
Clayne has devoted his career to his passion for beautiful singing.
Critics have described his performances as "authoritative," "filled with conviction," "projecting inner strength," "singing from the bottom of his soul." His singing has been called "vocally resplendent," "clear, large, rich, vital, warm," "pealed out like a big black bell."
Beyond performing. Clayne has endeavored to scrutinize the physical ingredients of voices we love to hear and the emotional ingredients of voices that move us. His teaching combines his natural enthusiasm with an ability to clearly convey the elusive principles of singing. He believes anyone can learn to sing beautifully.
Beautiful Singing is a collection of insights from Clayne's long and intimate association with music. It gives us sweet glimpses into his personal experience and guides us through the epiphanies that jolted his view. With a warm style and comfortable pace, he teaches us the crucial ideas: what music can do for a life, how to sing emotionally powerfully, how voice teachers can best nurture their students, what the elements of a beautiful voice are, how those elements are achieved. Along the way, he hints that these insights apply not only to lovely sound but also to joyful life.
Among the greatest offerings of Clayne's career is his comprehensive model of the beautiful voice, derived from the physicists' new interactivity paradigm. He has thought it through in both scientific and practical terms, in cooperation with vocal physicists and other teachers. This new view focuses on the flexible relationships between the various pieces of the vocal instrument, and a key tenet is tracheal resonance, which creates both depth and brightness in the sound. The final chapters of this book comprise the current definitive look at the interactivity paradigm applied to singing; the techniques from these pages will help the singer to clarity, connection, ring, and fullness. They will be the basis for making the sounds that thrill our ears.
The new updated and expanded digital edition includes:
QR codes linking to video workshops conducted by Dr. Robison, helpful warm-ups, illuminating illustrations, and audio examples of beautiful singing
Essentials of Technique—an invaluable, concise and comprehensive summary of all that is required of a singer to create their most beautiful sounds
Lively Stretches and One Full Flow charts—meticulous and purposeful graphics intended to guide the singer into finding the sensations of beautiful singing in their body
A four-page insert exploring in greater depth how the belters’ whine-like stretching of the soft pharynx has turned out to be so very helpful in all beautiful singing
The International Phonetic Alphabet, assisting the singer to navigate the subtleties of these palate stretchings
175 pages
Clayne Robison is a Professor Emeritus of Voice at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where he has taught since 1973. He holds Bachelors degrees in English literature and vocal performance from BYU, a Juris Doctor from Harvard, and a Master of Music in orchestral conducting and a Doctor of Musical Arts in opera production from the University of Washington.
Clayne has devoted his career to his passion for beautiful singing.
Critics have described his performances as "authoritative," "filled with conviction," "projecting inner strength," "singing from the bottom of his soul." His singing has been called "vocally resplendent," "clear, large, rich, vital, warm," "pealed out like a big black bell."
Beyond performing. Clayne has endeavored to scrutinize the physical ingredients of voices we love to hear and the emotional ingredients of voices that move us. His teaching combines his natural enthusiasm with an ability to clearly convey the elusive principles of singing. He believes anyone can learn to sing beautifully.
Beautiful Singing is a collection of insights from Clayne's long and intimate association with music. It gives us sweet glimpses into his personal experience and guides us through the epiphanies that jolted his view. With a warm style and comfortable pace, he teaches us the crucial ideas: what music can do for a life, how to sing emotionally powerfully, how voice teachers can best nurture their students, what the elements of a beautiful voice are, how those elements are achieved. Along the way, he hints that these insights apply not only to lovely sound but also to joyful life.
Among the greatest offerings of Clayne's career is his comprehensive model of the beautiful voice, derived from the physicists' new interactivity paradigm. He has thought it through in both scientific and practical terms, in cooperation with vocal physicists and other teachers. This new view focuses on the flexible relationships between the various pieces of the vocal instrument, and a key tenet is tracheal resonance, which creates both depth and brightness in the sound. The final chapters of this book comprise the current definitive look at the interactivity paradigm applied to singing; the techniques from these pages will help the singer to clarity, connection, ring, and fullness. They will be the basis for making the sounds that thrill our ears.
The new updated and expanded digital edition includes:
QR codes linking to video workshops conducted by Dr. Robison, helpful warm-ups, illuminating illustrations, and audio examples of beautiful singing
Essentials of Technique—an invaluable, concise and comprehensive summary of all that is required of a singer to create their most beautiful sounds
Lively Stretches and One Full Flow charts—meticulous and purposeful graphics intended to guide the singer into finding the sensations of beautiful singing in their body
A four-page insert exploring in greater depth how the belters’ whine-like stretching of the soft pharynx has turned out to be so very helpful in all beautiful singing
The International Phonetic Alphabet, assisting the singer to navigate the subtleties of these palate stretchings
175 pages
Clayne Robison is a Professor Emeritus of Voice at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where he has taught since 1973. He holds Bachelors degrees in English literature and vocal performance from BYU, a Juris Doctor from Harvard, and a Master of Music in orchestral conducting and a Doctor of Musical Arts in opera production from the University of Washington.
Clayne has devoted his career to his passion for beautiful singing.
Critics have described his performances as "authoritative," "filled with conviction," "projecting inner strength," "singing from the bottom of his soul." His singing has been called "vocally resplendent," "clear, large, rich, vital, warm," "pealed out like a big black bell."
Beyond performing. Clayne has endeavored to scrutinize the physical ingredients of voices we love to hear and the emotional ingredients of voices that move us. His teaching combines his natural enthusiasm with an ability to clearly convey the elusive principles of singing. He believes anyone can learn to sing beautifully.
Beautiful Singing is a collection of insights from Clayne's long and intimate association with music. It gives us sweet glimpses into his personal experience and guides us through the epiphanies that jolted his view. With a warm style and comfortable pace, he teaches us the crucial ideas: what music can do for a life, how to sing emotionally powerfully, how voice teachers can best nurture their students, what the elements of a beautiful voice are, how those elements are achieved. Along the way, he hints that these insights apply not only to lovely sound but also to joyful life.
Among the greatest offerings of Clayne's career is his comprehensive model of the beautiful voice, derived from the physicists' new interactivity paradigm. He has thought it through in both scientific and practical terms, in cooperation with vocal physicists and other teachers. This new view focuses on the flexible relationships between the various pieces of the vocal instrument, and a key tenet is tracheal resonance, which creates both depth and brightness in the sound. The final chapters of this book comprise the current definitive look at the interactivity paradigm applied to singing; the techniques from these pages will help the singer to clarity, connection, ring, and fullness. They will be the basis for making the sounds that thrill our ears.
The new updated and expanded digital edition includes:
QR codes linking to video workshops conducted by Dr. Robison, helpful warm-ups, illuminating illustrations, and audio examples of beautiful singing
Essentials of Technique—an invaluable, concise and comprehensive summary of all that is required of a singer to create their most beautiful sounds
Lively Stretches and One Full Flow charts—meticulous and purposeful graphics intended to guide the singer into finding the sensations of beautiful singing in their body
A four-page insert exploring in greater depth how the belters’ whine-like stretching of the soft pharynx has turned out to be so very helpful in all beautiful singing
The International Phonetic Alphabet, assisting the singer to navigate the subtleties of these palate stretchings
175 pages