Dialects for the Stage

Dialects for the Stage

Author: Evangeline Machlin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-02-28

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1135469857

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Dialect work is one of the actor's most challenging tasks. Need to know a Russian accent? Playing a German countess or a Midwestern farmhand? These and more accents – from Yiddish to French Canadian – are clearly explained in Evangeline Machlin's classic work. Now available in a book-and-downloadable resources format, Evangeline Machlin's Dialects for the Stage is based on a method of dialect acquisition she developed during her years working with students at Boston University's Division of Theatre. During her long career, Evangeline Machlin trained such actors as Steve McQueen, Lee Grant, Suzanne Pleshette, Joanne Woodward, and Faye Dunaway.


Stage Dialects

Stage Dialects

Author: Jerry Blunt

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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Instruction for the actor in imitating the Japanese, Brooklyn, American Southern, standard English, Cockney, Irish, Scots, French, Italian, German, and Russian dialects and/or accents.


More Stage Dialects

More Stage Dialects

Author: Jerry Blunt

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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A guide to the speech of people all over the world, with a focus on pronunciation, rhythm, and altered word order.


Speech for the Stage

Speech for the Stage

Author: Evangeline Machlin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-03

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1136555072

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From its original publication, thousands of actors have used this classic text to develop and refine their voice and speech. Evangeline Machlin includes warm-up routines for the voice but initially focuses on the importance of listening. She also discusses such important elements as relaxation, phonetics, articulation, resonance, pitch, rate of speech and stress. In addition, there are chapters on dialects, on reading aloud, sight reading, auditioning and performance.


Speak With a New York Accent

Speak With a New York Accent

Author: Ivan Borodin

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2012-06-01

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781478156963

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Finally, the go-to handbook for pulling off a convincing New York Accent. Hollywood dialect coach Ivan Borodin invites you to benefit from twenty years of preparing actors for stage and screen. The New York born instructor outlines the major aspects of this famously aggressive accent, including: *Monotone delivery *Increased nasality *Favoring the upper lip *'Yuge' changes *Unraveling contractions After going through this program, you'll have the audience convinced you're a New Yorker mid-way through your first sentence. This course is innovatively supported by free-to-access YouTube videos. Study this book while a veteran dialect coach spoon feeds you the subtleties of the accent. Interested in mastering a New York accent? Then this course will take you there in a very different way. Benefit from the best of two decades of experience. Awaken the New Yorker in you with this straightforward publication from a dialectician with a profound love of accents. 'Speak with a New York Accent' takes the exotic art of performing with dialects and delivers easy-to-follow lessons. Break all barriers to learning the New York accent with this book, and at your next audition the casting directors will be scraping their jaws off the floor. This program is also extremely helpful for comedians and voice-over artists. Ivan Borodin has taught dialects and accent reduction since 1993 at Los Angeles City College and Los Angeles Valley College Community Services, and several other schools. He has worked as a dialect coach on several films, including 'The Truth about Angels'.


How To Do Accents

How To Do Accents

Author: Edda Sharpe

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1783194626

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This unique book offers a complete course in how to do any accent and also gives you the tools to navigate your way through a specific accent. Using solid technical know-how, clear practical steps, real-life examples, and the occasional dose of humour, the Haydn/Sharpe System brings to the surface the underlying structure of accents. The authors share the processes that they, as specialist dialect coaches, have developed, to give you the insight, tools and confidence to work with accents. This second edition includes examples and exercises for six new accents. Includes a free online code to access detailed exercises and sample sentences – giving you the sounds you need to get your accent skills going! Also includes ready-to-use resource recordings of the following accents: Norfolk (NEW), Yorkshire (NEW), Standard Canadian (NEW), Standard Australian (NEW), Standard American, Northern Irish (Belfast), Southern Irish (Cork), Scottish (Glasgow), Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, South Wales (Swansea), West Midlands (Walsall), Cockney, Neutral Standard English, Contemporary 'Street' London (NEW), Cornish.