buzzcen@a... wrote:
buzzcen@a... wrote:
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> In a message dated 2/12/01 1:43:22 PM Central Standard Time,
> bounousb@i... writes:
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> > Gee. I guess a doctorate in voice and 20 years teaching experience
> > don't count for much anymore. I believe I teach a very sound vocal
> > technique and my students sing in a healthy (non-hyperfunctional)
> > manner. Perhaps this is an example of the arrogance and
> > hyper-sensitivity so often displayed by SLS disciples.
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Barry Bounous
> > Brigham Young University
> > School of Music
> > bounousb@i...
> >
> >
>
> Well,
>
Characters such as Estill and Lisa Popeil are cataloguing
> behaviors that are hyperfunctional
Hyperfunctional by who's definition?
and using the word technique to describe
> what is done.
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If belt means bringing up chest past the point it is healthy,
> you are promoting pressed phonation which leads to abusive behaviors on a
> laryngeal level.
Most current literature both pedagogical and scientific defines belt as
something other raised chest voice. The only people who define it as
such are either unfamiliar with it or are trying to demonize it.
>
> It's nice to have a Ph.D., and years of experience, but since you brought
> that all up I'd be interested in who you've produced with this technique.
> Who would be the example we could listen to? SLS can point to many we can
> all listen to, as could I from my own studio.
>
I am very familiar with the lengthy lists of names generated and
maintained by SLS instructors. They can legitimately claim many fine
singers as having been exposed to SLS however, because of the extreme
self-promotion of the system, I know singers who have had a single
coaching or signed up to sing in a workshop and have later found
themselves listed as products of the system or adherants. I also know
collegues who have agreed to participate in an SLS workshop and who also
therafter appear in literature as students, teachers, or supporters of
SLS (without their knowledge or consent). I even know a student who
called an old friend of his, currently an SLS instructor, asked him a
question over the phone, and later found himself listed in the teachers
promotional literature.
While I have never had any problem with the vocal technique espoused by
SLS, I find that many SLS teachers only have the vaguest notion of what
really makes the voice work or current vocal science in the slightest
way. They simply parrot the instructions they have been given and if it
doesn’t work for a particular student then they are at a loss - usually
blaming the student for the problem. Systems don't make a technique -
good teaching does.
--
Dr. Barry Bounous
Brigham Young University
School of Music
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