Speaking With Skill: A Skills Based Approach to Speech Training (Performance Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (993 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 140815689X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has had an extensive stage career that includes major roles in regional theatres along with hundreds of roles in film, television, radio, and voice-over. Dudley Knight is Professor Emeritus of Drama at the University of California, Irvine. He conducts workshops and lectures on voice and speech for actors and voice teache
Dudley Knight is one of the most respected voice and speech teachers in North America and highly regarded internationally. -- Janet Madelle Feindel, Professor of Voice and Alexander, Carnegie Mellon University, and author of The Thought Propels the Sound
Al Espinoza said A great book for developing kinesthesia/proprioception. This is a great book for those who want to develop kinesthesia/proprioception of various articulators (tongue, jaw, lips, buccinator, etc). There are detailed exercises to isolate every muscle involved in speech production. For instance, a typical phonetics talks about vowels in terms of tongue height and fro. Jeremy Sortore said Such a great resource, and a good read to boot. Such a great resource, and a good read to boot! A great marriage of factual information and imaginative presentation. This is the only book I can assign my speech students with no reservations-- I don't have to clarify or provide caveats about the information here. I don't have to worry about any implicit lin. Wonderful Mendy McMasters It's a blend of academic brilliance and practical application. Dudley's sense of humor jumps off the page and catches you by surprise. I highly recommend it for actors and teachers.
Janet Madelle Feindel - Associate Professor of Voice and Alexander, Carnegie Mellon University.Speaking with Skill marks a fundamental change in the pedagogy of speech training for actors and speakers. Dudley Knight is one of the most respected voice and speech teachers in North America and highly regarded internationally. It presents a skills-based approach to speech training and offers a wider range of techniques and a more integrated approach to speech actions and phonetic transcription than are found in other speech texts for theatre. Speaking with Skill reintegrates speech training with the allied fields of linguistics and voice science and represents the first serious reexamination of the archaic standards and pedagogy that have dominated speech training for actors and other professional speakers in America. The method employed in this book is already and increasingly being used by instructors on major actor training programs in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK.