The article I read was called The Tongue as Master of Your Singing: Vowel Modification by Shirlee Emmons. This article overviews five main elements that directors find problematic in coral pieces, all of which can be solved by vowel modification. This article explains why vowels need to be modified for louder, softer, higher, and lower notes. It explains why most choir teachers promote the “blend” of the group by embracing a theory of only using “pure” vowels. In this reflection essay I will review and expand on the different types of vowels: “pure”, acoustical, and speech. First, a “pure” vowel is considered to be one that delivers ease, beauty, and resonance for each particular pitch. When a singer correctly uses vocal tone formed by “pure” vowels, they can avoid muscular problems including hyperfunction and hypofunction. Hyperfunction is when the laryngeal muscle (where the vocal cords are) has increased and poorly regulated tension which can cause Edema, Nodules, Polyps, and Ulcers. Hypofunction is when vocal cords are under functioning and have inadequate tension causing air to escape. Both of these can result in stiffness in the vocal tract, hoarseness, deviations from pitch, limitations in range and dynamics, and other dysfunctions. This makes the singer have to deal with very serious …show more content…
Many choral directors and teachers consider this to be a “pure” vowel, too. This allows someone to produce a clearer and louder sound. The more harmony is used in these vowels, the more vibrant the voice is. These vowels allow the voice more capacity and carrying power. These vowels can give a therapeutic feeling to the singer’s throat, as well as the ears of the audience. When using them, it is also easier to use the appropriate amount of air needed and not disrupt the air supply. Acoustical vowels don’t distract from the song and help you to carry your message
In an experiment, around 350 Chicagoans, were recorded reading the following paragraph, titled “Too Hot for Hockey”, this script was written specifically to force readers to vocalize vowels “that reveal how closely key sounds resemble the accent's dominant traits” (Wbez). The paragraph is as follows:
Seikel, J. A., King, D. W., & Drumright, D. G. (2010). 12. Anatomy & physiology for speech,
I decided to go about this assignment by making a table (table 1.) and marking how many times I hear or notice nine different vocal changes, as well as certain miscellaneous anomalies.
This paper explores - with illustrative demonstrations - four queries concerning different aspects of phonemic restoration:
The Voices also build a relationship with the listener, they seem to be trustworthy and to have a sense of humour, and this helps the listener to learn about the characters and to understand the town. An example of this could be found in the prologue when the First Voice addresses the listener personally by saying “Only your eyes are unclosed” and again when it says “And you alone can hear the invisible starfall”. The effect of this makes the listener feel like the Voices are talking to them alone.
He uses the sound to create a powerful flowing piece and also to break the rhythm and call attention to specific parts. For instance when speaking of freedom he uses assonance to create a smooth flowing phrase “When the first bird sings.” The similarities in the sounds of the vowel allow the reader to breeze over the line and it gives them a light happy tone. He also uses similar sounds when describing the bird’s desperation to escape. He repeats the B sound in the phrase of “the caged bird beats his wing Till its blood is red on the cruel bars.” This phrase lacks the smoothness that the phrase describing freedom exhibited; it creates a much darker feeling, and the constant repetition of the heavy B sound causes the phrase to catch the reader’s attention. This leads to the speaker’s use of cacophony. He uses this method to break up the sound phrases and bring specific attention to words that bring to light his message. In his powerful language such as “keener,” “beats,” and “flings” he really add depth to the piece and create a true passion in the message being sent. He breaks up the sound with these words and really draws attention to
Another technique we have to learn in choir practice is we learn now to pronounce vowels and consonants correctly. An example of that would be pronouncing out “D”s as light “T”s. We also have to keep our mouth round and you cannot smile while you’re singing or else it ruins the effect of the vowels. One thing we always always must do is to pronounce the consonants loudly. What our conductors always make us do to help us remember this is to say “We LoVe ouR CoNSoNaNTS!”.
window. The sym For example: Night candles are burnt out. ----------------------------------------------- Notice how the long vowel sounds, up to line 16, reinforce the idea of a. Juliet's sleepiness and creates a dreamy quality. Line 17 on - ------------ Still poetic, but more short words and vowels sound like Romeo's.
She then mentioned a case study of Temiar (Mon-Khmer, Malaysia) that he had a highly contemplated example of epenthetic vowel situation in elongated consonant groups. Temiar permits just CV and CVC syllables. They are provided with an onset of three or four consonants, Temiar embeds epenthetic vowels to shape a thread of open syllables ended by a closed syllable. The epenthetic vowel is considered as a schwa in open syllables and [e] in closed syllables. The nature of an epenthetic vowel might be resolved in one of two ways: it is either a settled, default quality which may, obviously, be liable to standard allophonic variety as per the dialect's phonology; otherwise the quality is dictated by some piece of the phonological setting.
The vocal cords are muscles, and like every other muscle, exercising them enables a better performance. Because of auto-tune, it takes less work to make a good album, which has resulted in more singers, but it has also resulted in many singer's success being determined more by their image than their singing. For example, Lana Del Rey, a famous singer, cannot hold a note for more than a split second before her voice shakes and swerves. Her live performances are heavily diluted with a backing track to support her weak vocals. Even with her lack of vocal ability, she has reached the top of the music charts with several of her singles.
These three groups were then asked to complete three different tasks. The first was to repeat and segment 20 different words (5 consonant-vowel-consonant, 5 CCVC, 5 CVCC, and 5 CCVCC) and two overall scores were administered to the participants. Both scores were out of a maximum of 20 points; the first score was based on giving 1 point for each correctly analyzed word, and the second score was based on giving 1 point for correctly analyzing medial vowels.
Nooteboom, Sieb G. 1969. The tongue slips into patterns. Leyden (studies in linguistics and phonetics. The Hague: Mouton, 114- 32
42 In the case of silence, the passage of breath is open through the throat and the cavities above it, thus, the air flows freely through the two operations of exhalation and inhalation without any friction which could cause any production of any sound. In order to produce any sound, this involves the raising of the diaphragm (during exhalation) which presses the lungs and makes the air push out from the lungs to the point of articulation (i.e., the place of obstruction of the sound). As a result, the sound will be produced (Al-Hamad, 2002: 59). The production of a consonant sound requires close articulation by one or more vocal organs, which causes an occlusion at this point of articulation.
It is one of the main languages in the world and it is the international language these days. English language is the language that faced many changes that affects in several things. For example, some changes occur in writing system, phonological system and other changes during many centuries. English language is about four stages: Old English, Middle English, Modern English, and Early Modern English. In each era, there is an affection of other tribe’s languages on English language. As an example, Germanic tribes who moved into Britain and have an impact on Old English language are (Angles, Saxons, and Jutes). In the same way, the effects of the tribes lead to have many changes in vowel system, which calls the Great Vowel Shift .In this paper, I will discuss the Great Vowel Shift and the the process of that huge change.
All languages have vast variety of speech sound. Phonology have essentials terms in which each of them show the difference between how phonology is differ than phonetics as its not responsible for how to articulate. These phonological terms known as : phoneme , allophone, clear & dark l , syllabic l, minimal pairs , assimilation ,linking r , intrusive r, aspiration , consonant structure & syllable structure. A phoneme is a meaningful sound which shows the difference between two sounds which can change the meaning of word like : . Although allophones are the variation of same sound but they don’t change the meaning of it like < pin / spin >. However