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Speaking With Skill: An Introduction to Knight-Thompson Speech Work: Performance Books

Autor Dudley Knight
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 iul 2012
Actors and other professional voice users need to speak clearly and expressively in order to communicate the ideas and emotions of their characters - and themselves. Whatever the native accent of the speaker, this easy communication to the listener must always happen in every moment, onstage, in film or on television; in real life too.This book, an introduction to Knight-Thompson Speechwork, gives speakers the ownership of a vast variety of speech skills and the ability to explore unlimited varieties of speech actions - without imposing a single, unvarying pattern of "good speech". The skills gained through this book enable actors to find the unique way in which a dramatic character embodies the language of the play. They also help any speaker to communicate to a listener with total intelligibility without compromising the speaker's own accent; and to vary speech actions to meet different language needs.Supporting audio provides 116 tracks illustrating the exercises described in the book.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408156896
ISBN-10: 140815689X
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: Line art
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Performance Books

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

In theatre training and practice we have reached a "tipping point" where theatre departments and professional theatres are letting go of old training approaches in favour of this one

Notă biografică

Dudley Knight is Professor Emeritus of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA. An award-winning actor and director, he has written - and been written about - extensively in journals and books regarding voice and speech issues. He was Editor-in-Chief of A World of Voice; and has trained many leading voice and speech faculty in major professional theatre programs.

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionPart 1: Making Sounds1 Silence2 The space that shapes sound3 From silence to sound4 The muscles that shape sound: the tool kit5 "Phthong" shaping6 Obstruents: obstructing the flowPart 2: Finding Language7 Exploring the limits: Outlandish8 Obstruents within language9 The physical actions of obstruents in language10 The empty obstruent chart11 Making your own languageAn interlude: a daily articulation warm-upPart 3: Phonetics12 Writing it down13 Writing the consonants14 Sound to word15 Writing the vowels16 American vowel phonemes17 New vowels for diphthongs18 All the vowel phonemes19 Combinations20 Mid-central offglide diphthongs21 Polysyllabic words22 Connected speechPart 4: The skills of intelligibility23 Formal and informal speech24 Consonant skills25 Vowel skills26 Putting it all togetherIndex

Recenzii

Dudley Knight is one of the most respected voice and speech teachers in North America and highly regarded internationally.
Knight's clear writing and the accompanying audio files make for an engaging independent learning experience . I fully expect that Dudley Knight's excellent new book will become the dominant text in the speech classes of American acting conservatories in the years to come. Though the book challenges conservative traditions in actor training, the skills readers/students acquire through its processes are invaluable and essential.

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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 Speaking with Skill marks a fundamental change in the pedagogy of speech training for actors and speakers. 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.