This essential foundation for teaching vocal technique is now available in paperback! Based on the great teaching of the past, it explains the utilization of principles and applications of vocal techniques. The Chromatic Vowel Chart defines the vowel color changes in chromatic progressions for all voices, and the text explains how singing principles can be used by relying on the ear, the eye, and the sense of vibration in the body. Cloth edition [0-8108-1933-3] published in 1987. Paperback edition available April 2002.
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A strongly recommended addition to professional and academic vocal music instructional reference collections...an in-depth informational compendium concerning the production of resonating notes, and is informatively enhanced with interviews with expert teachers, diagrams, exercises and more, clearly marking it as a professional quality reference and instructional aide. The Bookwatch Should prove useful in comparative vocal pedagogy courses and in the graduate music library. CHOICE
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The late Berton Coffin's teachings and writings established him as an international authority on vocal pedagogy. Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado, Boulder, he also lived and taught in Europe from 1976 to 1983-in his private studio in Vienna; during summers with the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria; and in twenty-one opera houses in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. He presented master classes in the United States and in Europe and served as a visiting professor of voice at U.S. universities. Dr. Coffin, baritone, held academic and professional music degrees from Columbia University, Eastman School of Music, Chicago Musical College, and Earlham College.
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I personally studied with Dr. Coffin. This method works!
4 Oct 1999
By Lois Decker
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For two years I studied personally with Dr. Coffin in graduate school. He was a genius who truly knew how the human voice works through much research from the standpoint of a physicist and a musician and pedagogist. He repaired my voice, damaged by erroneous former instruction, and added an octave to the upper range. I use this method for my students now and know it works very well when used properly, with proper understanding. The first part of the book should be helpful to all voice students in gaining an understanding of how the human singing voice works.
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A professional quality reference and instructional aide
8 Dec 2003
By Midwest Book Review
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Now in its second edition, Coffin's Sounds Of Singing: Principles And Applications Of Vocal Techniques With Chromatic Vowel Chart by Berton Coffin is an extensive instructional concerning vocal techniques for the advanced singer. A strongly recommended addition to professional and academic vocal music instructional reference collections, Coffin's Sounds Of Singing is an in-depth informational compendium concerning the production of resonating notes, and is informatively enhanced with interviews with expert teachers, diagrams, exercises and more, clearly marking it as a professional quality reference and instructional aide.
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Coffin unites tradition and science in the art of singing
25 April 2008
By Jørgen Dal
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Coffin's Sounds of Singing: Principles and Applications of Vocal Techniques with Chromatic Vowel Chart
Coffin's much overlooked ground breaking research deserves
appreciation from all modern vocal teachers.
The book is not easy to work one's way through -
but it is worth the effort, as it gives practical advise into
the very core of artistic voice production.
Written in 1976 (revised and expanded in 1987) Coffin does not
take advantage of the computer as a tool for measurement of the optimal
tuning of each individual vowel on each step of all sung notes.
However the accompanying Chromatic Vowel Chart is 'a golden treasure'
with an unprecedented amount of information - all contained in one sheet of paper.
Coffin's acoustical wisdom is presented to us without any demand for mathematic skills. With a humble attitude Coffin cuts right through any mysticism of vocal teaching.
Coffin's much overlooked ground breaking research deserves
appreciation from all modern vocal teachers.
The book is not easy to work one's way through -
but it is worth the effort, as it gives practical advise into
the very core of artistic voice production.
Written in 1976 (revised and expanded in 1987) Coffin does not
take advantage of the computer as a tool for measurement of the optimal
tuning of each individual vowel on each step of all sung notes.
However the accompanying Chromatic Vowel Chart is 'a golden treasure'
with an unprecedented amount of information - all contained in one sheet of paper.
Coffin's acoustical wisdom is presented to us without any demand for mathematic skills. With a humble attitude Coffin cuts right through any mysticism of vocal teaching.
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