Intentional Singing: thinking, teaching and singing.

Intentional Singing shares some of the writing of Alex Ashworth, thinking about singing and how to teach it.

Alex is a Professor of Singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also holds a first class honours degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, specialising in the History and Philosophy of Science.

Intentional Singing grew from the meeting of those two specialisms

It looks at singing from the point of view of the intention, the mental imagery, that precedes our singing.

It holds that, to a very significant degree, we sing what we intend, whether we know it or not

It asks, then, how we can improve our singing by improving our intention. It asks how we can help people change their singing by understanding, and then helping to change, their intention.

Though perhaps an alternative perspective to popular contemporary vocal pedagogies, Intentional Singing joins a rich history of like-minded approaches to vocal pedagogy.

Intentional Singing hopes to provoke and help.

Intentional Singing is an evolving project.

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