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National Read a Book Day Reading Recommendations

Friday 6th September 2024

In honour of National Read a Book Day, our Lecturers Louisa and Sophie have shared some of their favourite voice-related books for those needing some new reading inspiration.

Louisa's Top Picks:

 

This is a Voice: 99 exercises to train, project and harness the power of your voice by Dr Gillyanne Kayes and Jeremy Fisher

 

Finding Your Voice, a step-by-step guide for actors by Barbara Houseman

 

Accents and Dialects for Stage & Screen by Paul Meier

 

 

Sophie Recommends:

 

Talk: The Science of Conversation by Elizabeth Stokoe

 

Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants and the Origins of Language by Dean Falk

 

The Musician’s Mind: Teaching, Learning and Performance in the Age of Brain Science by Lynn Helding

 

The Accent Method Second edition: A rational voice therapy in theory and practice by Kirsten Thyme-Frøkjær and Børge Frøkjær-Jensen


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