Music Essentials for Singers and Actors: Fundamentals of Notation, Sight-Singing and Music Theory - Softcover

Gerle, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1495073769 ISBN 13: 9781495073762

Publisher: Hal Leonard, 2018

Synopsis

Singers and actors who can learn music quickly and accurately have an enormous advantage in today's increasingly competitive field. With Music Essentials for Singers and Actors, award-winning composer and music director Andrew Gerle has written a music theory text especially for singers, focused exclusively on topics and techniques that will help them in the rehearsal room and on stage.

Gerle leads readers step by step through every aspect of written music, using over one hundred real-world examples from Broadway scores. His common-sense, methodical approach demystifies abstract concepts, and his unique 1-STARRT method teaches singers to read musical “words” instead of single notes, enabling confident sight-singing of any score. Drawing on his years of experience as a Broadway vocal coach, Gerle also shows readers how to use music theory to think like a composer, analyzing scores for dramatic clues to create a more detailed and powerful performance. Each chapter is accompanied by downloadable audio examples and exercises to lock in newly learned concepts.

About this title

About the Author

Andrew Gerle is an award-winning composer/lyricist, music director, arranger, and pianist. He has lived in New York City for over twenty years, working on dozens of Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and touring productions. He is also the author of The Enraged Accompanist's Guide to the Perfect Audition, and teaches musical theater performance, theory, and composition at Yale University and the Manhattan School of Music.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hal Leonard
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1495073769
• ISBN 13: 9781495073762
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336