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The secrets of the voice: Jazz singing and lyrical singing in comparison
Author: Daniela Panetta, Giuseppina Cortesi
publisher: Aracne Editrice (April 1, 2016)
Language: Italian
Flexible Cover: 68 Pages
Dimensions: 21.01 x 0.41 x 29.69 cm
When I was a child I remained truly bewitched by the secret word, my eyes shone at the thought of being able to tell one or of having one revealed. He had that precious taste, like a treasure to be guarded, which also made fairytale what belongs to reality instead.
The memories bring me back to childhood and therefore to my grandmother, who held the highest number in the world of kept secrets. He had for all categories and for all types: love, ailments, tasty recipes, remedies for bad luck and luck.
The beauty of the secret is that you could not tell it to anyone, it had to be kept, but inexplicably the secrets also had to be handed down with the magic formula of premise "I recommend not to tell anyone!" That gave me that angiera inconsistency and that today makes me smile.
The more you grow, the more the magical sense tends to thin, the determination and everyday life of my present led me to prefer the known over time rather than the secret.
Today we all want to know, we want to understand and try to measure ourselves in understanding, forgetting how important the value of "not knowing" is often important.
And so also in art the secret assumes different forms, something revealed and sometimes not tangible to everyone, something understandable and sometimes complex to explain.
But my reflect on the title of this book in a philosophical sense today ends here, and let's go to the heart what it offers us to read "The secrets of the voice: jazz singing and lyrical singing in comparison".
It is a book written in four hands by Daniela Panetta and Giuseppina Cortesi, who aims to define the stylistic differences and the different technical characteristics that are highlighted between the jazz world and the lyrical world.
It is a slender book of 68 pages, which however deals with dense themes and which needs attention to the scrolling of reading, also equipped with a DVD that accompanies the passages of the book in video format.
The scientific inserts are curated by Franco Fussi and in the aforementioned bibliography Silvia Magnani, Philippe Barraquè, Alfred Tomatis and Frederick Matthias Alexander also appears, while the illustrations and videos are curated by Adriano Merigo.
The division into chapters is very schematic and always organized with the text divided into two columns where the point of view of the jazz world is deepened with the lyrical one.
To introduce the two worlds there is a brief historiography on the origin of the two musical dimensions and the end of the book there is a glossary, to clarify some terms used in the various arguments, and the illustrations on the main issues of the Canto world (posture, Largen, vocal trait, breathing)
in short, a full immersion in the jazz world compared with the lyrical world that deals with technical and stylistic themes with attentive and different eyes of the jazz singing and lyrical singing.
The captivating title will lead you to make a trip to these two musical worlds, conducted by the authors, who will reveal the secrets of the comparison.
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