Stage Voice Vocabulary

Anatomy

100

This is also known as the voice box

Larynx

200

Vocal folds do this to create sound

Vibrate

300

It's the tube that connects your lungs to your throat. The larynx sits on top of it. 

Trachea

400

Vocal folds are the same mechanism as this more common term. 

Vocal chords

500

This is the anatomical term for the throat. It divides into the laryngopharynx (just above the larynx), oropharynx (going into the mouth) and nasopharynx (going into the nose).

Pharynx 

Anatomy II

100

This dome-shaped muscle is underneath the lungs and inside the rib cage

Diaphragm

200

Mandible is another term for this important mechanism to vocal production

Jaw

300

This is located behind the esophagus and is important to posture

Spine

400

Air goes through the larynx and trachea, while food and water go into this.

Esophagus

500

This soft cartilage serves as part of the protective swallowing mechanism

Epiglottis

Warm-ups

100

All I want is a proper cup of coffee made in what? 

A proper copper coffee pot

200

In the game "zip" this noise changes the direction of the energy.

BONG

300

Farinelli exercises ask you to breathe in, do this, and then release the air on a descending count.

hold your breath

400

Doing this facial exercise helps raise your soft palate and lower your larynx.

Yawning 

500

This is the name of the activity we did in class similar to a guided meditation that aims to relax the body. 

Progressive muscle relaxer

Vocal Variety

100

This describes the degree of loudness, and often helps communicate intensity.

Volume

200

This describes where a sound falls on the musical scale

Pitch

300

If I ask you to make a sound that is focused toward the back wall so the audience can hear, I am asking you to do this

Project

400

This is another word for accent when considering how different regions of the world speak

Dialect

500

This describes the precise shaping of a sound by the speaker's lips, teeth, tongue, and hard and soft palates. Its the "how" of performing a sound.

Articulation 

Misc.

100

One important aspect of creating different sounds comes from the control of this. If you aren't doing it, you are dead. 

Breath

200

We watched an example video with two actors warming up their voices. The video was created by this UK organization

National Theatre

300

Your final in this class consists of these two projects

1. Vocal Health/Wellness Guide

2. Voice Over (of children's video)

400

Some people claim the strongest facial muscle is the tongue, others claim that it is this part of the vocal apparatus

The jaw

500

IPA is the system of notation to describe sounds of spoken language. It stands for this

International Phonetic Alphabet