Harmonics and resonances!
Musical Theater
SOVTEs
Voice Health
Motor Learning
100

A harmonic is this.

What is a part of a pitch, or the fundamental and all its overtones?

100

As opposed to classical singing, in musical theater, vibrato is this.

What is an ornament?

100

Three of the many SOVTE postures or shapes are these.

What are m, n, z, zh, ng, gn, v, lip trill, tongue trill, lip-and-tongue trill?

100

These are the 2 types of infection.

What are viral and bacterial?

100

These are the 2 types of learning.

What are Declarative and Procedural?

200

A Resonance of the Vocal Tract is this.

What is a band of frequencies with the ability to resonate harmonics?

200

For musical theater singing, vowels can be categorized by these cardinal directions.

What are East and West?

200

Continuous lip, tongue, or lip-and-tongue trills highlight this aspect of singing.

What is they show when the breath flow is consistent?

200

The ingredients of nasal rinsing like using a neti pot should include these.

What are distilled water and sea salt?

200

The goals of learning and performance should be this.

What are completely different?

300

When a Harmonic and a Resonance of the Vocal Tract coincide, this happens.

What is that harmonic is resonated or amplified?

300

This is one way to find 'calling voice' or 'mix.'

What is the 'blue violet red' exercise; the speaking ni ne na no nu exercise; or the 'Mary had a little lamb' exercise?

300

A Manually Occluded Vocal Tract Exercise is especially helpful in this way.

What is it allows the singer to have the best mouth and vowel position in addition to all the benefits of SOVTEs?

300

These are the 3 options a singer should take when it comes to the application of anesthesia.

What are child-sized intubation, a mask, or a laryngeal mask?

300

Giving a student an instruction just before they sing is called this.

What is feed forward?

400

The 2 steps for a non-treble singing in the classical style are these.

What are Step 1, passive vowel modification; and Step 2, active vowel modification?

400

Laryngeally speaking, this is the reason thoracic breathing is favored by musical theater singers.

What is because there's no tracheal tug, and therefore the larynx can sit in a neutral to higher position?

400

In regards to the vocal folds and the area above the glottis, these are the benefits of SOVTEs.

What are the back pressure pushes the walls of the throat into their most open position and the back pressure squares up the folds?

400

These are the 2 cures for vocal fold swelling.

What are rest and steroids?

400
More feedback is worse for these reasons.

What are that it creates dependency on the teacher; it prevents the learner from processing feedback; and the student will be in cognitive overload?

500

In order to remain resonant, a treble singer should do this as the pitch ascends.

What is modify their vowel to a more open vowel, the one nearest the first vocal tract resonance?

500

These are the 2 ways for a musical theater singer to maintain the brassy timbre of Mode 1 above a B4.

What are use very thin cords and very finely tuned vowels, or narrow the pharyngeal constrictors to add high twang or nasality?

500
In order to get any benefit from li'l straws, the diameter needs to be this.

What is 2.5-3.5 millimeters or smaller than the opening between the folds when they're vibrating?

500

Since our body reacts to a virus the same way it does to an allergen, these are the 2 types of medication we should take.

What are ibuprofen and an antihistamine?

500

This is an example of immediate augmented feedback.

What is a teacher's comments during a lesson?

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