young singers physiology and pedagogy

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Child and Adolescent Singers GENERAL OUTLINE

PSYCHOPHYSICAL ASPECT VOCAL PARAMETERS PHYSIOLOGY & ANATOMY PEDAGOGY


Child and Adolescent Singers PSYCHOPHYSICAL ASPECTS

PITCH PERCEPTION TONAL MEMORY VOCAL

COORDINATION


Child and Adolescent Singers VOCAL PARAMETERS

Vocal Registers Vocal Quality Range & Tessitura Changing Voice


Child and Adolescent Singers

PHYSIOLOGY & ANATOMY Bodily Alignment & Posture Breathing Phonation Resonation Articulation


PEDAGOGY

1. SONG APPROACH Emphasis on

expression Song as vehicle for

instruction



PEDAGOGY

2.PSYCHOMOTOR APPROACH



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



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)



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)


HISTORY

The Tiples de Santo Domingo founded in 1587.

Oldest established children’s choir


HISTORY Las Piñas Boys Choir, 1969


Child and Adolescent Singers PHYSIOLOGY


• POWER SOURCE?

• Breath

• SOUND SOURCE?

• Larynx

• RESONATOR?

• Vocal tract

• ARTICULATOR?

• articulators

POWER SOURCE

Abdominal muscles

diaphragm lungs

Intercostal muscles


Sound source-Larynx


Sound source-Larynx

NAJERA/MuEd144

GLOTTIS

ARYTENOIDS

FALSE VOCAL FOLDS

VOCAL FOLDS

EPIGLOTTIS

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Sound source-Larynx


ANATOMY-Resonator


Articulators


THE GOAL

RELAXED

FREE

HEALTHY

RESONANT TONE


MAIN REFERENCE

McKinney, James C. The Diagnosis & Correction of Vocal Faults : A Manual for Teachers of Singing & for Choir Directors. Waveland Press c1994.

Phillips, Kenneth. Teaching Kids to Sing. Schirmer Books, 1992


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