To: "'VOCALIST'" <vocalist>
Subject: RE: MOUTH VOICE
Date sent: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:48:22 -0600
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All new terms are "new" until they are introduced to the public.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lloyd W. Hanson [mailto:Lloyd.Hanson-at-NAU.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 3:46 PM
To: VOCALIST
Subject: Re: MOUTH VOICE


Dear List:

Well, now we have a new term. "Mouth" voice. Anybody wonder what it
is? I assume its name comes from a sense of feeling about where the
voice is located or "placed". One lister claims it is different than
chest voice or head voice or falsetto. It is not in the chest, nor
the head, nor is it false. It is in the mouth. What else?

I expect next we will read about "nose" voice (or, maybe even "left
and right nostril" voice. And there could always be collarbone voice
and ear voice and . . . well, you get the idea.

I cannot help but remember as a kind going to the dentist with a ache
on the right side of mouth only to have the dentist tell me that my
aching tooth was in my right lower jaw. Mouths are very deceiving.

Lloyd W. Hanson, DMA
Professor of Voice, Pedagogy
School of Performing Arts
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011