Have Jane Manning and Maureen Forrester written any books? Alternately, who
influenced them? Just how low are these exercises started. How high ?
Many thanks
Regards
Susi
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>From: kjensen@c...
>To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [vocalist] Vocal Fold Closure
>Date: Mon, Jan 22, 2001, 9:37 AM
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> Robin Frye wrote:
>>Karen,
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>>I would be interested to know more about the Manning and
>>Forrester exercises you mention.
>
> Sure. Jane Manning's exercise is to start with vocal fry (also
> called glottal scrape, although the term sounds inappropriate for such a
> gentle motion). Vocal fry is created when subglottic pressure is lower than
> that necessary for phonation, and the cords are allowed to emit little
> pulses, like a young teenaged boy trying to make his voice sound lower, or
> perhaps like Marge Simpsons voice on the TV cartoon! Then the singer
> gradually increases breath flow and imagines that he/she is doing a slow
> glissando until a pitch appears. the purpose of this is to train the edges
> of the cords to proximate cleanly without breath pressure. Jane used to
> say, "See, that's all the breath you need for singing!"
> Maureen Forrester's exercise is to close the glottis, and do a
> slow-motion start to a note. She would use her finger like a harpist, first
> placing the finger on a string (glottis closed), then slowly plucking the
> string and releasing it's sound (tone released). There is a pause on each
> note, and a breath after two notes, where you see a comma. Using a number
> system to indicate pitch, the notes and vowels are:
>
> (ay) (oh)
> e - o, e - o, e - o, e - o, - e o,
o
> 3 1 3 1 4 3 5 7 2 1
1
> (below) (below)
>
> I think it is amazing that two such different methods or schools of
> singing as represented by these two singers, could espouse such similar
> ideas.
>
> Karen Jensen
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