Richard Miller

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Based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, Adaptation for a Black Theatre

A Tempest

The Meditative Heart of Yoga

Yoga Nidra

Now available in paperback, this book-and-CD offers a complete program for spiritual awakening through deep relaxation. Drawing from his extensive study of yoga in India and his training in Taoism and Chinese Medicine, Miller expertly guides listeners through practices that include sensing the body and exploring your essential qualities.

A Meditative Practice for Deep Relaxation and Healing

For the beginning or intermediate student, in class or individual study, this book provides a fresh and thorough introduction to vocal technique and repertoire relevant to today's student. Its anthology contains 15 folk songs, 15 art songs, and 15 songs from the musical theatre. Illustrations and a glossary accompany the text, whith features chapter discussions on practicing vocalizing, breathing, learning a song, the theatrics of singing, and music reading.

System and Art in Vocal Technique

The Structure of Singing

Diane Morgan

Wheeler Professor of Performance and Director of the Otto B Schoepfle Vocal Arts Center Richard Miller, PH.D.

The Chihuahua is a clever, independent dog prized for his feisty personality and compact size. Despite his small stature, this spirited pet has the courage and determination of a much larger breed, often asserting himself as the family watchdog and protector. Chihuahuas require a great deal of affection and attention, but this loving investment will be returned over and over. In fact, with the proper care and training, the Chihuahua will blossom, capturing your heart and transforming your home in the process. Each book in this series contains original, lively text, complete with informative tips and colourful photos illustrating all aspects of pet care. Expertly written these user-friendly guides are bound to delight the entire family.

Chihuahuas

Offering practical suggestions for the interpretation of all Schumann's solo and duet songs, this text provides for singers and pianists perspectives which can be used to bring to life the work of the German composer.

An Interpretive Guide for Performers

Singing Schumann

While many texts and courses on the art of singing offer comprehensive overviews of technique and performance, few have time to delve into the specific questions they spawn. Solutions for Singers explores these unanswered questions, filling in gaps that professional performers, students of singing, and voice teachers have long sought to close. Fielding over 200 questions, distinguished teacher and performer Richard Miller tackles problems raised during hundreds of his master classes and pedagogy courses. He deliberately avoids abstract generalities, concentrating instead on specific, recurring questions: What are some good exercises to loosen or relax tension in the back of the tongue? Do you apply the same principles regarding breathing to a younger student that you do to older students? What is meant by voiced and unvoiced consonants? Is there a female falsetto? Through such specialized questions, Miller probes the very essence of artistic expression. The questions are organized under ten broad topics, which Miller considers from various angles. He couples traditional and modern philosophies to present the most relevant and precise solutions. The result is an invaluable handbook for singers, which, read either sequentially or selectively, provides a unique and pragmatic approach to vocal artistry and technique.

Tools for Performers and Teachers

Solutions for Singers

A collection of essays looks at all aspects of the art of singing, from the physiology and acoustics of the singing voice to career building.

On the Art of Singing

Designed as a practical program for singers, teachers, and voice professionals, it couples historic vocal pedagogy with the latest research on the singing voice, emphasizing the special nature of the soprano voice and the proper physiological functioning for vocal proficiency. Richard Miller supplies a detailed description for each of the nine categories of soprano voices. For each category he then surveys the appropriate literature and provides an effective system for voice building, including techniques for breath management, vibratory response, resonance balancing, language articulation, vocal agility, sostenuto, proper vocal registration, and dynamic control. The book concludes with a daily regimen of vocal development for healthy singing and artistic performance. It also features dozens of technical exercises, vocalization material taken from the performance literature, and numerous anatomical illustrations. --From publisher's description.

Training Soprano Voices

Step-by-step guide to materials and tools, modeling in wax and plaster, hollow wax modeling, plaster molds, and much more. Introduction. "The beginning artist will find the step-by-step instructions...to be like having a personal tutor." — Enchantment. 281 photographs.

Figure Sculpture in Wax and Plaster

Training Soprano Voices provides a complete and reliable system for training each type of soprano voice. Designed as a practical program for singers, teachers, and voice professionals, it couples historic vocal pedagogy with the latest research on the singing voice, emphasizing the special nature of the soprano voice and the proper physiological functioning for vocal proficiency. Renowned singing teacher Richard Miller supplies a detailed description for each of the nine categories of soprano voices. For each category he then surveys the appropriate literature and provides an effective system for voice building, including techniques for breath management, vibratory response, resonance balancing, language articulation, vocal agility, sostenuto, proper vocal registration, and dynamic control. The book concludes with a daily regimen of vocal development for healthy singing and artistic performance. It also features dozens of technical exercises, vocalization material taken from the performance literature, and numerous anatomical illustrations. Unique in its focus on a single voice, Training Soprano Voices is likely to set the standard in voice training for years to come.

Locates the roots of the bohemian tradition in the early nineteenth century and traces the course and assesses the significance of its mutation into the protoculture

The Protoculture Then and Now

Bohemia

This engaging and long influential collection of essays looks at the art of singing in its totality. Written in a lively, non-technical style, On the Art of Singing is a comprehensive manual that deals with all aspects of singing, from the physiology and acoustics of the singing voice to career-building. Divided into four main sections -- vocal technique, style and interpretation, professional preparation, and vocal pedagogy - the book's structure is such that the reader may pick and choose as personal interests and needs dictate. Containing essential information for all singers, including original research on the mechanics of the voice, this book collects in one volume everything that renowned instructor and singer Richard Miller considers essential to the art of vocal performance. To anyone seeking that elusive state of vocal freedom, whether as a singer or instructor of singers, and to anyone else interested in voice, vocal technique or vocal performance, On the Art of Singing will prove an indispensible guide.

Singing Schumann is likely to become the standard introduction to some of the best-loved songs in the singer's repertoire. Written by a distinguished performer and internationally known teacher, the book offers astute, practical advice for bringing Robert Schumann's Lieder to life in performance. Richard Miller guides the reader through the interpretation of all of Schumann's solo and duet songs, drawing thoroughly on Schumann's compositional style and its historical background. In addition to covering the "familiar forty"--the much-performed songs Schumann composed in and around 1840 while trying to win the hand of Clara Wieck--Miller takes an in-depth look at the lesser known early and later songs. In particular, he focuses on the rich and varied repertoire of Schumann's later years, challenging the conventional view that these works reflect a decline in the composer's creative powers. Singing Schumann begins with an overview of Schumann as a song composer and then proceeds to survey the entire repertoire, song by song. It features the well-known cycles, including the Eichendorff Liederkreis, Frauenliebe und -leben, and Dichterliebe, as well as the Liederalbum f?r die Jugend and settings of texts by Goethe, Burns, R?ckert, and Kulmann. Using numerous musical examples, Miller uncovers Schumann's characteristic compositional devices and describes his novel and experimental approaches to the interpretation of texts, often achieved through exceptionally colorful keyboard accompaniments. Musically sensitive and eminently readable, Singing Schumann is an invaluable guide for teachers, coaches, pianists, and singers.

The buzzing sound you hear just might be Mosca, a counterfeit fly designed to deliver war germs while spying on the enemy. But Mosca escapes his trainers and devotes himself to killing off humanity so the rest of the beasts and insects can live. Mosca is very small, very smart and due to his designers blunder, very emotional. A tale of danger and suspense, crime and cruelty, fun and folly, this is the story of his flight and his pursuit, as one tiny fly takes on the world.

A Factual Fiction

Mosca

Ted Kaczynski brought terror to the United States for nearly two decades. He mailed and hand delivered bombs that targeted airplanes, universities, businesses, and professors. He manufactured homemade explosives and attempted to spark a revolution that rejected and fought against modernization and industrialization. It took the FBI seventeen years to finally catch him, and he gave up a promising career in academics to live a minimalistic life in the wilderness. Creating lengthy manifestos, papers, and essays, he questioned and rejected modern society. He went unsuspected for the 17 years he spent uncaught, and created widespread fear whenever anyone opened a package. He was eventually convicted of domestic terrorism, and his crimes still shake the fabric of American society.

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