Young singers physiology and pedagogy
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Child and Adolescent Singers GENERAL OUTLINE
PSYCHOPHYSICAL ASPECT VOCAL PARAMETERS PHYSIOLOGY & ANATOMY PEDAGOGY
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Child and Adolescent Singers PSYCHOPHYSICAL ASPECTS
PITCH PERCEPTION TONAL MEMORY VOCAL
COORDINATION
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Child and Adolescent Singers VOCAL PARAMETERS
Vocal Registers Vocal Quality Range & Tessitura Changing Voice
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Child and Adolescent Singers
PHYSIOLOGY & ANATOMY Bodily Alignment & Posture Breathing Phonation Resonation Articulation
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PEDAGOGY
1. SONG APPROACH Emphasis on
expression Song as vehicle for
instruction
Child and Adolescent Singers
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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Lowell Mason in 1834 Father of singing in America First formal inclusion of music in Boston
public schools ,1838 music literacy& proper vocal production
Francis Howard -”The Child-Voice in Singing” (1895)
E. Curtis Palmer-Curtis series
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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Emil Behnke & Lennox Browne -The Child Voice (1885); English tradition of
choirboy training
John Dawson -The Voice of the Boy (1902)
Voice Culture for Children (1907)
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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Frank Rix (1909) -used natural activities -Thaddeus Giddings (1919) -yelling and crying, a good starting point Change in Philosophy (1930) -music instruction centered on song for art’s sake Advocates of Vocal Technique (1977- present)
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HISTORY
The Tiples de Santo Domingo founded in 1587.
Oldest established children’s choir
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Child and Adolescent Singers PHYSIOLOGY
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• POWER SOURCE?
• Breath
• SOUND SOURCE?
• Larynx
• RESONATOR?
• Vocal tract
• ARTICULATOR?
• articulators
Sound source-Larynx
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GLOTTIS
ARYTENOIDS
FALSE VOCAL FOLDS
VOCAL FOLDS
EPIGLOTTIS
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