A bass (or basso in Italian) is a singer who sings in the deepest vocal range of the human voice. According to Grove Music Online, a bass has a range extending from around the F below low C to the E above middle C (i.e., F2–E4). The Harvard Dictionary of Music defines the range as being from the E below low C to middle C (i.e. E2–C4).[2] According to Singing for Dummies, bass range is normally F2 to E4 but can be as wide as Eb2 to F4. According to its author, Pamelia S. Phillips, the bass changes from chest voice into middle voice around A3 or Ab3 below middle C and changes into head voice around D4 or C#4 above Middle C. Phillips states that the bass's low voice is his strength, and the bass's high voice is his weakness. Phillips also states that the bass's voice is the deepest, darkest, and heaviest of the male voices.[3]. It is also common for men who are classified as "basses" (and have a full bass choral range) to have a speaking voice which may sound much higher than would be expected. Most seasoned basses also can train a very versatile falsetto, making their usefulness in a choral arrangement even greater.
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PART I The Breath System The Phonating System The Resonating System The Articulating System General Remarks PART II Fundamental Exercises The Mezzo and Contralto Registers Agility Studies The Turn Trill Studies Messa Di Voce Style Special Problems PART III English Foreign Language Diction Italian French German Spanish Glossary of Musical Terms Songs for Sopranos Recordings of Great Singers |
A method that has long been highly regarded among teachers and students alike. Each of these books consists of 3 parts: Part I describes the vocal mechanism and its function briefly and in simple, non-technical language. Part II consists of basic, fundamental vocalises carefully selected to develop the specific voices for which the book is written. Part III presents the important elements of diction in the 5 languages most commonly used in singing: English, Italian, French, German and Spanish.
| 6208 BOOK $9.95 |
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Who is Baritone? The Onset Managing the Breath Vowel Definition and the Chiaroscuro Vowel Modification Moving into Middle Voice Agility Factor Further Consideration More on Positioning of the Larynx Pedagogic Uses of Falsetto for Baritone The Phenomenon of Vibrato Establishing Technical Security Developing an Individual Tonal Concept Dynamic Control Voice Viruses Contributing to Performance Effectiveness Performance Preparation and Enhancement Early Repertoire Suggestions Choosing Audition Material |
Perhaps the most renowned writer in the field of vocal pedagogy, Richard Miller has delivered a new and outstanding contribution to the study of vocal technique in Securing Baritone, Bass-Baritone, and Bass Voices . The first thorough and comprehensive treatment of low male voices, this book draws on techniques and practical advice from Miller's years of professional experience as a performer and pedagogue. With a unique focus on "securing" the technical stability of the male voice, the book offers practical advice to students, their teachers, and professional performers, through numerous practical exercises and repertoire suggestions appropriate to various stages of development. Miller synthesizes historic vocal pedagogy with the latest research on the singing voice, always emphasizing the special nature of the male voice and the proper physiological functioning for vocal proficiency. An indispensable guide to male low voices, this book is an essential text for performers, aspiring performers, and instructors alike.
| 6457 BOOK $23.95 |
Vaccaj's masterly Method won increasing popularity with time, and was eventually used in conservatories all over the world. Even today it is often used by singing teachers, who consider it a collection of attractive Ariettas, each serving a particular funtion. And it is quite easy material, perfect for the beginning student.
| 6490b BOOK $19.95 |
Thirty-Six Eight-Measure vocalises for Basses, complete with solfege.
| 6211 BOOK $4.95 |
Thirty-Six Eight Measure Vocalises comes complete with instructions on producing the tone and provides you with the solfege for each note
| 6484b BOOK $4.95 |
Mathilde Marchesi was a mezzo-soprano, teacher of singing, and exponent of the bel canto technique. She was an advocate of a naturalistic style of singing: she called for a fairly instinctive method of breathing and was particularly concerned with vocal registration, calling it "the Alpha and Omega of the formation and development of the female voice, the touchstone of all singing methods". These 20 vocalises are perfect for your daily vocal practice and having been used by some of the great singers of the past 100 years.
| 6466 BOOK $7.95 |
The sterling value and great usefulness of Concone's lessons have been so long recognized, that their extensive adoption caused the issue of numerous editions in almost every country where the study of the Art of Singing is cultivated. No edition, however, is as thorough and complete as his 'Fifty Lessons' series. The purpose of these lessons, in the author's own words, are 'to place and fix the voice accurately,' and 'to develop taste while singing broad, elegant and rhythmical melodies.' This is a vocal training series not to be missed!
| 6467 BOOK $7.95 |
The sterling value and great usefulness of Concone's lessons have been so long recognized, that their extensive adoption caused the issue of numerous editions in almost every country where the study of the Art of Singing is cultivated. No edition, however, is as thorough and complete as his 'Fifty Lessons' series. The purpose of these lessons, in the author's own words, are 'to place and fix the voice accurately,' and 'to develop taste while singing broad, elegant and rhythmical melodies.' This is a vocal training series not to be missed!
| 6479 BOOK $19.95 |
The aim of these Vocalises is to render the Voice sufficiently flexible and mellow to execute easily and elegantly the colorature and embellishments found in the works of our great composers. The results obtained with this method, and how well it has been received by the highest musical authorities help prove this book to be a worthwhile purchase.
| 6492 BOOK $4.95 |
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Hum-Chew Mum Mum Nee Ah Ha/Ma/Na/Nah/Hah Yoo Ee Yoo Mini Mini Mum Mum Wee Ah Wee Ah Lah Lah Lah Hah Mum Mum Yah Hah Hah Hee Ah Hee Ah Bee Ah Mee May Mah Moh Moo Mee Yah Mee Yah Mee Yah Mee Tee Oh Hum-Chew Lee Lay Lee Lah Mah Nah Zah Nah Pah Yah Yah Thee Ah Thee Ah Yah Yah Yah Mum Mum Lee Yah Mah Bah Flah Ning Mee Ay Ah Nay Nay Nay Preh Nee Nee Ay Ah |
These two wonderful vocal coaches that have helped many singers realize their full potential. With the help of some of their most successful student, they can now coach you too! Daily Workout will help you: Warm-Up, Work Out and Cool Down Your Voice for Maximum Performance - Build Strength and Stamina Throughout Your Range - Enjoy Exercising Your Voice With Fun and Interesting Exercises. Also includes a chart of exercise patterns and difficulty rating.
| 6196 CD $16.95 |
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Breathing & Posture: Angel From Montgomery Tone Placement, Resonance & Loosening Face and Throat: Centerpiece Approaching Higher Notes: Sweet Dreams Strengthening Low Notes: Wade in the Water Understanding Singer’s Diction: I’ll Stand By You Understanding Singer’s Diction Part 2: Unchained Melody Looping, Consonants, Vibrato Development: Can’t Help Falling in Love Register Navigation and Range Expansion: Willow Weep for Me Developing the "Mix" Register: How Sweet it Is Opening High Notes, the Inner Smile: Since I Fell for You Building Sustenance & Volume: Dark End of the Street Pitch Work, Step-wise Movement: Walk Away Renee Pitch Work, Chromatic Movement: All of Me Increasing Tonal Richness, Articulation: Save the Best for Last Working with Larger Melodic Leaps: Sunny Came Home Putting it All Together: Young at Heart Belting: Crazy Baby |
This innovative method uses 17 fully produced songs and instructional tracks to teach singers how to develop and maintain good vocal technique. Detailed voice instruction is combined with pop, rock and jazz songs that gradually increase in difficulty. Singers can learn the essentials of contemporary singing technique OR use the song sequence with or without the recommended warm up sounds as a complete vocal warm up. Ideas and examples for song stylizing are also included. The CDs can be used with or without the guidebook.
| 6428 Book & 2CDs $24.95 ALTOS AND BASSES |
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Facial Resonance (Placement): I Can See Clearly Now Breathing & Posture: Dear Prudence Combining Correct Breathing and Placement: Why Don't You Do Right? Approaching Higher Notes: You Gotta Be Strengthening Low Notes: Summertime Understanding Singer’s Diction: One of Us Understanding Singer’s Diction Part 2: Get Here Diphthongs, Looping, & "R" & "L": I'm Beginning To See the Light Range Expansion & Vibrato Work: Don't Know Why Developing the "Mix" Register: Sunday Kind of Love Opening High Notes with the Inner Smile: Thank You Pitch Work, Step-wise Movement: You're Still the One Building Sustenance & Volume: Tracks of My Tears Pitch Work, Chromatic Movement: Ms. Celie’s Blues (Sister) Increasing Tonal Richness, Articulation: Alison Ending Phrases on High Notes: I Hope You Dance Putting it All Together: Bridge Over Troubled Water Belting: Cry |
This follow-up to Volume One of Susan Anders’ Vocal Workout includes 18 fully-produced pop, rock and jazz songs and instructional tracks, and is the same level of difficulty (so using Volume One is not a prerequisite). Beginning singers can learn how to sing correctly and develop their voices by singing through the workout at their own pace, with or without the guidebook. Experienced singers can skip the audio singing lessons and use the workout to warm up and maintain their vocal technique and strength. Song stylizing concepts are included, as well as chapters on staying healthy on tour and how to keep aging vocal cords strong.
| 6428 Book & 2CDs $24.95 ALTOS AND BASSES |
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All Through The Night |
This hard-to-find collection is a wonderful resource for bass singers and features 13 songs along with a piano accompaniment CD. Expansive performance notes and history for each song makes this a great addition for your repertoire. Leonard W. Van Camp was known in the United Sates and Europe for his activities related to choral music. He was Professor Emeritus of Music at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). He joined SIUE music faculty in 1963 and endeared himself to singers and audiences while at the university, with his trade mark lecture-concerts and his fierce enthusiasm for the music he conducted. As director of choral activities at SIUE, he served for 30 years and conducted the SIUE Concert Chorale, whose name has become synonymous throughout the world with award-winning performance.
| 5207 SONGBOOK $21.95 |
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Comedy Tonight - A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum Edelweiss - The Sound Of Music Get Me To The Church On Time - My Fair Lady The Girl That I Marry - Annie Get Your Gun Gonna Be ANother Hot Day - 110 In The Shade How To Handle A Woman - Camelot I Talk To Trees - Paint Your Wagon I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face - My Fair Lady If I Ever Would Leave You - Camelot The Impossible Dream - Man Of La Mancha Oklahoma - Oklahoma Some Enchanted Evening - South Pacific Soon It's Gonna Rain - The Fantasticks The Surrey With The Fringe On Top - Oklahoma There Is Nothin' Like A Dame - South Pacific They Call The Wind Maria - Paint Your Wagon This Nearly Was Mine - South Pacific Try To Remember - The Fantasticks Wunderbar - Kiss Me, Kate |
This is the perfect first collection for many voice students, whether they are teens or college singers or adults. Joan Boytim has selected songs appropriate for each voice type, and has chosen keys that suit the vocal needs of novice singers studying in traditional, generally classical lyric singing. The editions of the songs in these collections are short and straight-forward. Teachers have found these books invaluable. To make the collections even more useful, each volume is offered in a book/companion CD edition with piano accompaniments recorded by pianist Laura Ward.
| 9183 SONGBOOK & 2CDs $24.95 |
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Ura Lee Beautiful Dreamer The Erie Canal Foolish Questions Funiculi, Funicula Go Down, Moses I Wish I Was Single Again If You Were The Only Girl In The World The Jolly Miller Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho The Lark In The Morn The Lost Chord The Minstrel Boy Mrs. Murphy's Chowder Out Of My Soul's Great Sadness Request Simple Gifts Smick, Smack, Smuck Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child The Story Of A Tact Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Where Did You Get That Hat? While Strolling Through The Park One Day You'll Miss Lots Of Fun When You're Married |
This series was designed to supplement traditional vocal instruction. Each piece is in English and has a limited vocal range as well as a piano accompaniment that is playable by a student pianist. The pieces include art songs, folksongs, humorous songs, and suitable vintage popular songs and are all appropriate for contest solos. The accompanying CD includes professionally-recorded accompaniments.
| 9185 SONGBOOK & CD $16.95 |
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Across The Western Ocean The Bells Of Cleremont Town The Blind Ploughman Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Road Blow High, Blow Low Create In Me A Clean Heart Encantadora Maria False Phillis The Friar Of Orders Gray Hor Ich Das Liedchen Klingen Intermezzo The Jolly Roger The King Of Love My Shepard Is Leave Me Loathsome Light Let Us Break Bread Together Lord, I Want To Be A Christian Next, Winter Comes Slowly O Mistress Mine On The Road To Mandalay The Rovin' Gambler The Sea Shenandoah Tally-Ho! There Was A Mighty Monarch |
This is among the most widely used teaching repertoire for singers in the U.S. Over 30 songs in each book with 2 accompaning CDs, including American and British art songs, folk song arrangements, sacred songs and a sampling of beginning songs in German, Italian, Spanish and French. There is a completely different song selection for each voice type..
| 9184 SONGBOOK & 2CDs $24.95 |
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Lullaby of Broadway - 42nd Street At Night She Comes Home To Me - Baby Easier To Love - Baby This Can't Be Love - The Boys From Syracuse You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea - The Boys From Syracuse Camelot - Camelot How To Handle a Woman - Camelot If Ever I Would Leave You - Camelot Come Along With Me - Can-Can It's All Right With Me - Can-Can Razzle Dazzle - Chicago Closer Than Ever - Closer Than Ever If I Can't Love Her - Beauty and the Beast Talk to the Animals - Doctor Dolittle Try To Remember - The Fantasticks Comedy Tonight - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Thank Heaven for Little Girls - Gigi Just One of Those Things - High Society Too Darn Hot - Kiss Me, Kate Where Is The Life That Late I Led? - Kiss Me, Kate In Praise of Women - A Little Night Music If I Had My Drothers - Li'l Abner Get me To The Church On Time - My Fair Lady I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face - My Fair Lady Eating Myself Up Alive - A New Brain On A Clear Day - On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Clap Yo' Hands - Oh, Kay! They Call The Wind Maria - Paint Your Wagon You Mustn't Kick It Around - Pal Joey I Could Write a Book - Pal Joey A Woman Is A Sometime Thing - Porgy and Bess I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' - Porgy and Bess - Stephen Flaherty Make Them Hear You Where's The Girl - The Scarley Pimpernel How Lucky You Are - Seussical |
Alfred's Singer's Library of Musical Theatre features a treasury of the finest musical theatre songs. Presented in their original keys and authentically transcribed from the original vocal scores, the songs were selected for each voice type with careful attention to the vocal range of the song, as well as the voice of the character from the original Broadway cast. Each volume includes a variety of shows, spanning every important decade of musical theatre. This authoritative series features historical and contextual commentary, audition tips, and 16-bar cut suggestions for each song, making it the most useful and relevant collection of its kind. This is the Baritone / Bass Edition.
| 8593 SONGBOOK $19.95 |
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La calunnia e un venticello - Rossini - l barbiere di Siviglia O tu, Palermo - Verdi - Vespri siciliani Infelice!... e tuo credevi - Verdi - Ernani Vecchia zimarra - Puccini - La boheme Madamina il catalogo e questo - Mozart - Don Giovanni Ella giammai m'amo - Verdi - Don Carlo Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni - Bellini - La sonnambula Come dal ciel precipita - Verdi - Macbeth |
Cantolopera is a series that proposes a totally new way to approach the great opera repertoire: versions for voice and piano of the most famous arias, accompanied by a compact disc containing the corresponding orchestral bases, recorded with a 130-piece orchestra, to allow the professional, the student and the opera fan to practice, as well as a version sung by an established artist for reference. Each volume contains the lyrics of the arias plus a short summary and background information on the 'Compagnia d'Opera Italiana' Orchestra and the performers.Cantolopera is a series that proposes a totally new way to approach the great opera repertoire: versions for voice and piano of the most famous arias, accompanied by a compact disc containing the corresponding orchestral bases, recorded with a 130-piece orchestra, to allow the professional, the student and the opera fan to practice, as well as a version sung by an established artist for reference. Each volume contains the lyrics of the arias plus a short summary and background information on the 'Compagnia d'Opera Italiana' Orchestra and the performers.
| 8572 SONGBOOK & CD $24.95 |
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Resta immobile - Rossini - Guglielmo Tell Eri tu che macchiavi quell'anima - Verdi - Un ballo in maschera Pieta, rispetto, amore - Verdi - Macbeth Cruda, funesta smania Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor Bella siccome un angelo - Donizetti - Don Pasquale Dio di Giuda - Verdi - Nabucco Credo in un Dio crudel - Verdi - Otello O Carlo ascolta... lo morro - Verdi - Don Carlo |
This is among the most widely used teaching repertoire for singers in the U.S. Over 30 songs in each book with 2 accompaning CDs, including American and British art songs, folk song arrangements, sacred songs and a sampling of beginning songs in German, Italian, Spanish and French. There is a completely different song selection for each voice type..
| 8569 SONGBOOK & CD $24.95 |
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Too Cool To Care! Nobody's Perfect Searching for Poetry Let's Go Wild Growing Roses Helter Skelter The Waters of March Tricotism Everything Happens for a Reason Doin' the New Low-Down |
"Low? Bottom? Me?" (Lobotomy, get it?) is "super-bass" Richard Bob Greene's first solo CD." Richard is, of course a founder and driving force behind nu-wave a cappella pioneers The Bobs, and he's a songwriter, composer, arranger and humorist extraordinaire. Included on the 10 songs are 5 Greene originals, "Too Cool to Care," "Nobody's Perfect," Searchin' for Poetry," "Growing Roses" and "Let's Go Wild." The others are a manic remake of the Bob's cover of Lennon/McCartney's "Helter Skelter," Antonio Carlos Jobim's Salsa-flavored "The Waters of March," Oscar Pettiford's "Tricotism," and the Mills Brothers' "Doin' the New Low Down." Most of the songs on "Low?" are accompanied, but the emphasis is on the lyrics and on Greene's powerful vocals; the solid rich bass that has anchored the Bobs for so many years. "Too Cool to Care" is a stream of consciousness beatnik coffee-house poem with cool jazz clarinet, bass and drums, as is "Let's Go Wild" but the words are sung rather than spoken. "Nobody's Perfect" is a bluesy, jazzy observation. There's some wonderful vocal horns on "Doin' the New Low Down." "Low?" is a smoky, Leonard Cohen-esque, surprising, poetic new direction for Greene's music, which will please present fans and surely earn him new ones!
| 2301 CD $14.98 |
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