Acting for Singers

Name: Acting for Singers | Creating Believable Singing Characters
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Creating Believable Singing Characters

David F. Ostwald(Autor*in)

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1. Auflage

Erschienen am 7. Juli 2005

265 Seiten

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Intro
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Believability: The Territory and the Tools
1 The Divine Marriage: Combining Believable Acting with Expressive Singing
Being Believable as Your Character
Acting Actions
Acting Feelings
Acting Technically
Acting Intutively
Grounding Your Acting in Hardwired Human Behavior
Singing and Acting Together-Believably
Jumping Your Internal Hurdles
Summary
Exercises
2 To Become or Not to Become: Using Yourself to Create a Believable Character
Entering Your Character's Reality-The Magical If
Describing Your Character's Reality
Making Your Character's Given Circumstances Your Own
Using the Magical If to Explore Carmen as Gypsy
Using the Magical If to Explore Tony as Leader of a Street Gang
Sharing Your Character's World
Putting It Together
Summary
Exercises
3 Playing in the Moment: Using Improvisation to Be Believable
How Improvising Helps You to Act Believably
Setting Up Successful Improvisational Situations
Setting Up Successful Singing Improvisations
Beginning an Improvisation
Helpful Tips
Discussing the Improvisation
Handling Possible Fears about Improvising
Summary
Exercises
Ideas for Improvisations
4 Judgments and Trust: Improving Your Concentration
Introduction
Improving Your Concentration by Increasing Your Ability to Trust
Improving Your Concentration by Putting Judgments in Perspective
Improving Your Concentration by Intensifying Your Engagement
Maintaining Your Concentration in Demanding Vocal Passages
Recovering Your Concentration
Summary
Exercises
Part II: Creating Your Character
5 Neither "Right" nor "Wrong": Making Effective Interpretive Choices
Freeing Yourself to Make Interpretive Choices
Recognizing When Your Character Choices Will Work Well
Interpreting the Music to Help Make Effective Character Choices
Summary
Exercises
6 Your Character's Universe: Analyzing the Dramatic Structure of Music-Theater Pieces
The Music-Theater Master Plan
The Four Dramatic Building Blocks
Developing the Action in the Stock Dramatic Structure
Developing the Action in a Typical Plot
The Music as an Emotional and Dramatic Voice
Summary
Exercises
7 Your Character's World: Fashioning a Theme Statement
Defining the Theme
Defining the Qualities of the Most Useful Theme Statements
Fashioning a Theme Statement
Fashioning a Theme Statement Using Research
Troubleshooting
Summary
Exercises
8 Your Character's Heart's Desire: Fashioning Super-objectives
Defining a Super-objective
The Qualities of the Most Useful Super-objectives
Fashioning a Super-objective
Why a Single Super-objective is the Most Helpful
Troubleshooting
Summary
Exercises
9 Motivating Your Character's Actions: Fashioning Objectives and Acting Beats
Defining Objectives and Acting Beats
Defining the Qualities of the Most Useful Objectives
Fashioning Objectives for Operas and Musicals
Fashioning Objectives for Songs, Art Songs, and Lieder
Using Objectives to Strengthen a Role or Scene
Fashioning Acting Beats
Using Acting Beats to Motivate Repeated Text
Summary
Exercises
10 Your Character's Inner Voice: Fashioning Subtext and an Internal Dialogue
Defining Subtext
Considering the Score as a Source of Subtext
Fashioning Subtext
Fashioning Internal Thoughts for Music Without Words
Integrating an Internal Dialogue into Your Dramatic Analysis of Operas and Musicals
Integrating an Internal Dialogue into Your Dramatic Analysis of Art Songs, Lieder, and Songs
Troubleshooting
Summary
Exercises
Part III: Preparing for Performances
11 Being Believable in Any Role on Any Stage: Heightening
Defining Heightening
Heightening Your Feelings and Gestures by Energizing Your Body and Breath
Heightening Your Gestures for Period Pieces
Heightening Your Gestures for Melodramas and Farces
Using Heightening to Support Hyper-melodramatic and Hyper-farcical Roles
Troubleshooting
Summary
Exercises
12 Getting the Part: Auditioning
Introduction
Preparing to Audition
Doing Auditions
Solving Auditioning Problems
How to Improve
A Final Note
Summary
Exercises
13 Getting Good: Rehearsing
Introduction
Preparing to Rehearse
The Rehearsal Process
Troubleshooting
Summary
A Rehearsal Checklist
Exercises
14 Delivering a Believable Character: Performing
Preparing to Perform
Preparing to Enter
Entering
Performing Operas and Musicals
Performing Art Songs, Lieder, and Songs
Troubleshooting
Summary
Exercises
Appendices
1 Ten Maxims of Believable Singing Acting
2 How to Analyze and Prepare Vocal Material from a Dramatic Viewpoint: An Overview
3 A Short Glossary of Stage Terms
4 How to Research Period Practices in Movement, Manners, and Gesture
5 Notes on the Exercises for Teachers and Directors
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