The New Voice: How to Sing and Speak Properly [Paperback]

Alan Greene (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1981

This book is a valuable contribution to laryngeal knowledge and presents a concise profile of the anatomy of the larynx. Features exercises that will restructure the voice and teach the student a new way to handle the instrument.

Product Details

• Paperback: 104 pages
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation (January 1, 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0881881414
• ISBN-13: 978-0881881417
• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 8.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #136,053 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I agree!, November 6, 2006

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Susan R. Titone (NYC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Voice: How to Sing and Speak Properly (Paperback)

I agree wholeheartedly with the first reviewer. This book tells you how to sing, not just what should happen in good singing. I don't know of any other book that spends the time needed to address setting up the structure for singing and especially the tongue and high larynx which causes most of the problems that as a voice teacher I encounter! This is amazing.getting over the urge to gag is really worth it! I'd like to be in contact with other teachers and singers who find this really great. It has meant so much to many of my students who went to teachers who seemed to be afraid of this approach and who use only the ear and imagery to overcome real physical ignorance or misunderstandings. There is help out there for the tight, retracting, tense and lazy tongue. What freedom this offers!!!!!!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and logical approach --- ultimately ineffective for me, May 9, 2008

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Patrick Baker (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Voice: How to Sing and Speak Properly (Paperback)

I had extremely high hopes for this book when a friend just happened upon it and gave it to me as a gift. This offered a completely different approach to the voice that was in contrast to Mark Baxter's book that I was also studying at the same time. Since the approach made so much sense to me I threw myself into the excercises whole wholeheartedly for months and spent hours a day doing all the various exercises with a high level of diligence. I desperately wanted it to work and even went as far as to try and contact Alan Greene. Although I wasn't able to find him, I did find a former student of his who studied this method and we talked briefly on the phone. Although he couldn't offer tips or specifics, he said the method did work and that you just had to do the excercises. Perhaps there was some missing piece here for me, but after seeing (or rather hearing) no difference in my voice after several months I eventually abandoned it.

Incidentally, I really be interested to hear from people that it *did* work for though.

16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing technique will improve your voice!, June 28, 2005

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theStanleyWebbs (Deal, Kent, U.K.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New Voice: How to Sing and Speak Properly (Paperback)

This book is wonderful and enlightening. It addresses the structure of your instrument, your voice, and he trains you how to use it properly. You start by NOT singing. You exercise using certain muscles and not using others. It is dramatically different than anything else I've read or been taught. There are three mechanisms that work together to produce your sound: the sound-producing mechanism, the sound-supporting mechanism, and the word-producing mechanism. He gives you many exercises for each. It will seem weird at first, getting used to a new concept. As a singer, I never had thought about how I made sound, I just sung and if it sounded bad I'd get frustrated and try to blindly fix it. But this book teahces you how to do it properly, so that even if you're under stress you will be concious of how your voice is reacting and still be able to sing properly. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in singing or even speaking publicly.