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Use and Training of the Human Voice: A Bio-Dynamic Approach to Vocal Life, by Lessac, 3rd Edition

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The alpha and omega in voice

By A Customer - August 14, 2000

This is everything anybody (actors, speakers and liars) will ever need to know about discovering, developing and using with confidence the voice as a tool to communicate. Westerners especially, I believe, have trained and maimed their voices to suit ideals (The average woman speaks about 6 tones higher than her natural voice prescribes). This book, a trusted training manual in many theatre and opera schools, teaches practically and without pretence, the real abilities of the voice. This is all one needs to acquire/rediscover, with practise, how the voice can be an (extemely flexible) extension of oneself in a physical world. A wholistic adventure which necessarilly encompasses correct breathing and posture, which will eventually be effortless, simply because it is natural. From an acting perspective the Arthur Lessac voice system becomes a perfect partner to the Stanislavskyan system of acting (associated with 'The Method' in USA). The practice of the Lessac system can... read more

Singers, pay attention to this one -

By A Customer - August 12, 2001

As a voice teacher for many years, I am always being complimented on my speaking voice. Arthur Lessac's book was not my speaking coach, my operatic training was - but the technique is the same. Lessac has done a masterful job explaining the "old" Italian, bel canto/good singing technique that's been around since the 1600's - but he's done it for the speaking voice. Singers need to use the same technique for both speaking and singing, and this is the best book I've found on speaking technique.Now everyone can understand logically how to improve their speaking and singing voice, and perhaps operatic voices will be better understood as not being something elitist or unnatural. Using the power of your instrument to produce quality sound is amazingly natural - it ain't magic. The "magic" is being given the vocal chords of an angel, inspiration from God, the constitution of a horse, the luck of (all) the Irish, and the intelligence of an Einstein to develop... read more

"Good Voice, Good Man" can be you!

By A Customer - September 16, 1997

The design is here for a lifetime's care and growth of the human voice. Lessac presents an integrated system of correlating vocal life with all the facets of the actor's instrument (physical, vocal and sensory-imaginative). The techniques teach the concurrent development of the whole through relaxation, breath control and correct posturization, with vocal life itself divided into structural action, tonal action and consonant action. Fun, tongue-twisting exercise poems by Arthur's son Michael. A must for public speakers, politicians, and professional actors alike. --Jack Marston, Anaheim, Californi

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