The Vocal system
Using The Voice
Greek Theater
Play Production/ Careers
Potpourri
100
This is the major concern when you exhale.
What is the control of air as it is released?
100
This is the sound’s place on a musical scale.
What is Pitch
100
This was the term the Greeks gave to their audience space.
What is the theatron?
100
This is the person who designs the costumes.
Who is the costume designer.
100
This is the degree of loudness.
What is Volume?
200
The muscle at the base of the lungs that controls exhalation.
What is the Diaphragm?
200
It is the shaping of sounds by the speaker’s lips, teeth, tongue, and hard/ soft palate.
What is Articulation?
200
He was the first actor
Who was Thespis?
200
This is the person who designs the sets
Who is the set designer?
200
This is aiming your voice at where you’re focused.
What is Throwing your Voice?
300
These are the three resonators
What are the pharynx, sinus cavities, and nasal cavities?
300
Examples of this include: nasal, guttural, breathy, and normal.
What is Quality or Timbre?
300
These would range anywhere from 15 to 50 men and offered a sense of spectacle
What was the Greek Chorus?
300
This is what a set designer makes to show everything in scale.
What is a model of the set?
300
These were the three major Greek tragic playwrights.
Who are Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides?
400
They connect the lungs to the trachea.
What are the bronchial tubes?
400
These clarifies relationships of words in phrases to clarify units of thought.
What are phrasal pauses?
400
This is the translation of Tragedy or Tragoida.
What is Goat Song?
400
These are what the set designer makes to show what each character is supposed to wear and how to style the actor’s hair.
What are the costume designs?
400
He gave credit to songs and mime to the creation of Greek comedy.
Who was Aristotle?
500
It is the passageway that sends air from throat to the lungs.
What is the Windpipe or Trachea?
500
This is the act of directing the voice to a specific target.
What is projection?
500
He is considered to be the greatest comic playwright of Ancient Greece.
Who is Aristophanes?
500
In the video, this is reason Michelle Christie has her deaf students perform in front of a live audience.
What is Michelle feels that performing will help deaf children learn to express themselves without fear?
500
This is Latin for “God out of the Machine”
What is Deus Ex Machina?
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