I live in South Africa.Any hints on how I could get hold of this study?
Thanks
Regards
Susi
Cape Town
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>From: taylor23f@h...
>To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com
>Subject: [vocalist] More on registers/bulk/inventing the wheel...............
>Date: Thu, Jan 25, 2001, 12:51 AM
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> An excellent study regarding the exact muscular activity of
> the laryngeal muscles can be found in: "A Series of Four
> Electromyographic Studies" by Bill Vennard, Minoru Hirano, John
> Ohala, and Bjorn Fritzell, 1971." The Journal of Singing has info on
> how to obtain them. These studies alone can clear up a world of
> confusion regarding muscular activity of the Vocalis(TA),CT, and LCA
> muscles in falsetto, head-voice, and chest-voice. Sometimes, to find
> the right information- you need to dig a bit:)
> "As we have said, the chest register is generally denied or
> rejected by teachers, not that one could not draw from its
> application an immense advantage, nor that the supression of the
> range whivh it embraces would not deprive the singer of the most
> beautiful dramatic effects or the most favorable contrasts, but
> because one can approach the study of this register only with the
> help of profound knowledge, under the threat of ruining the student's
> voice, and because the blending of this register with that of the
> falsetto can be secured only by a long and ably directed labor. It
> has therefore been judged simpler and more natural to free oneself
> from the difficulty of studying it."
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> No, this quote is not from a current source. It's Garcia II
> in 1841. Also, it is interesting to note that in Mancini's book
> (Practical Reflections on figured Singing) there were no examples of
> vocal exercises given. Most likely he didn't think it was necessary
> to include them. Many of the principles were much better understood
> then and to write them out would have been to state the obvious.
> Open many voice books today and what do you see-- pages and pages of
> vocal exercises- interesting huh?
> We as voice teachers don't need to reinvent the wheel. We
> need to find out how the heck the wheel was made.
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> Take Care All,
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> Taylor L. Ferranti
> DMA Candidate in Vocal Pedagogy
> LSU
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>> perhaps there is a limit to brute strength's usefulness in the
> operation
>> of the larynx in singing. i can imagine the increase of bulk in
> the folds
>> making the voice lower and i can also imagine that it might make it
> possible
>> for extending the heavy mechanism higher. but, i wonder if, in
> the latter
>> case, would that make it more difficult to incorporate the action
> of the
>> crico-thyroid muscles? i suppose thay could be built up too
> (headline:
>> 'singer strangles himself to death- no hands!').
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>> i have to admit i'm too stunned to get carried away imagining
> all the
>> possibilities.
>> hey, maybe peter hoffman will make a comeback with a workout video
> for the
>> larynx.
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>> dazed and confused,
>> mike
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