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Performance Bks.: Speaking with Skill : An Introduction to Knight-Thompson Speech Work by Dudley Knight (2012, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10140815689X
ISBN-139781408156896
eBay Product ID (ePID)5038696226
Product Key Features
Number of Pages344 Pages
Publication NameSpeaking with Skill : an Introduction to Knight-Thompson Speech Work
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2012
SubjectGeneral, Speech
TypeTextbook
AuthorDudley Knight
Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Language Arts & Disciplines
SeriesPerformance Bks.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight13.2 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Reviews"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." - Voice and Speech Review, "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, and author of The Thought Propels the Sound "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." -- Voice and Speech Review, Dudley Knight is one of the most respected voice and speech teachers in North America and highly regarded internationally.
Series Volume Number5
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Preface Introduction Part 1: Making Sounds 1 Silence 2 The space that shapes sound 3 From silence to sound 4 The muscles that shape sound: the tool kit 5 "Phthong" shaping 6 Obstruents: obstructing the flow Part 2: Finding Language 7 Exploring the limits: Outlandish 8 Obstruents within language 9 The physical actions of obstruents in language 10 The empty obstruent chart 11 Making your own language An interlude: a daily articulation warm-up Part 3: Phonetics 12 Writing it down 13 Writing the consonants 14 Sound to word 15 Writing the vowels 16 American vowel phonemes 17 New vowels for diphthongs 18 All the vowel phonemes 19 Combinations 20 Mid-central offglide diphthongs 21 Polysyllabic words 22 Connected speech Part 4: The skills of intelligibility 23 Formal and informal speech 24 Consonant skills 25 Vowel skills 26 Putting it all together Index
SynopsisSpeaking with Skill marks a fundamental change in the pedagogy of speech training for actors and speakers. 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., 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberPN4162
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