What becomes possible when you investigate the voice you actually have?
Singing With Your Own Voice, by Orlanda Cook.
What the book addresses
Cook brings her Roy Hart Theatre experience to a practical exploration of finding and developing your singing voice. The Nick Hern Books paperback is ISBN 9781854596123.
How to read it
Read with curiosity about the relationship between vocal possibility and the ideas you have inherited about your sound. A singing voice can carry character, feeling and relationship as well as pitch and words. Keep exploration attentive to ease and responsiveness. An unusual sound is not automatically a useful sound for every musical or dramatic task.
An original rehearsal investigation
Choose a short song you know comfortably. Identify the person addressed and one image that makes a phrase particular. Sing the phrase, then speak it, and notice what each version makes available. Keep the range comfortable. Write down a discovery about communication rather than issuing a verdict on whether your voice is good enough. This is an original reading companion, not Cook's exercise sequence.
Connections and distinctions
Cook offers a particularly relevant Roy Hart lineage reading connection. Jason Bennett’s direct voice study was with Richard Armstrong and Jonathan Hart Makwaia, including advanced international voice workshops. Compare vocal exploration with the particular technical and stylistic demands of the song.
This is an original JBAS reading guide with an attributed overview and study questions. Read the complete book for the author's developed argument and exercise instructions.
