Useful Links
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Teachers | Reading | Personal
Musicians:
- Edna Stern: pianist and forte-piano player
- Thomas Quasthoff: Not as learned as Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, neither as noble, but has an amazingly warm voice
- Mirella Freni: listening to her improves your technique
- Renée Fleming: sincere artist. Recommended performance: Streetcar
- Régine Crespin: a proof that French can be sung well (and understood)
More coming soon...
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Vocal Technique:
- Breathing Exercises of Alexandra Strelnikova
- Breathing tests: test yourself, how well you breathe
- Singing Exercises
- The Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique
- Natural Voice Training with the Feldenkrais Method
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Vocal Health and Anatomy:
- The Voice Problem Website
- Speech: Explaining briefly all aspects of voice production
- Detailed interactive Diagram of Human Mouth and Throat (Cut View)
- The Anatomy Lesson: larynx, pharynx, thorax muscles, respiration, and more
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Online Scores:
- IMSLP: International Music Score Library Project - Amazing size.
- Art Song Central: free, printable sheet music for singers and voice teachers.
- Schubertline: The online score service for singers, instant printed sheet music of lieder, songs and arias - view, play and print in any key
- Sheet Music Archive: two free downloads a day.
- The Mutopia Project: Free sheet music for everyone.
- Vocal Music @ Repertoire Online
- Recorder Music: PDFs of classical music arranged for recorder groups.
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Libretti, Lieder, Texts & Translations:
Opera:
- OperaGlass Opera Index
- The Aria Database
- AllAboutOpera.com
- Karadar’s Classical Music World: 400 Libretti of the most famous Operas.
- Oberlin Opera Theatre Department’s On-Line Opera Resource Guide
- The Lied and Art Song Texts Page
- A Treasury for Mélodie, French art songs and translations.
- The Internet Sacred Text Archive: Latin, Greek and Hebrew scared texts with English translations.
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Voice Teachers:
- David L. Jones: article archive
- Thea van der Putten: detailed repertoire lists
- Shirlee Emmons: articles with focus on vocal technique / performance
- Cathy Pope: articles on singing technique
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Recommended Reading:
- Singing, the Mechanism and the Technic by William Vennard
- Books by Richard Miller, for example: Training Soprano Voices
- List of recommended reading for the vocalist
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Personal Links:
- Y. Stern: jewellery designer
- Ido Drukker: architect, designer and Vice President of IMT Modular Partitions Ltd
- Dr. Nadav Drukker: theoretical (string theory) physicist and potter.
- Dr. Tamar S. Drukker: specializes in medieval English narrative literature, the Brut chronicle and the Hebrew language.
- Tiltan: barbershop (beautyshop) quartet