Respiration
The organs of respiration.
What are the lungs?
The parallel tissue structures that vibrate when air passes between them.
What are the vocal folds?
The amplification of the sound waves created at the vocal folds.
What is resonance?
Two reasons good posture and alignment are important for singing well.
What is better breath support and freedom from tension in muscles?
The main and largest muscle of respiration.
What is the diaph...?
The three main types of phonation.
What is coordinated, breathy, and glottal/hard?
Technical term for the throat.
What is the pharynx?
A style of singing used in musical theater and contemporary commercial music that relies on more speech-like resonance and often sounds powerful.
What is belting?
The part of respiration that, as singers, we want to elongate.
What is exhalation?
The 4 main voice parts for choral singing.
What is soprano, alto, tenor, bass?
The resonator for the voice.
What is the vocal tract?
The kind of doctor you want to see if you think something might be wrong with your voice.
What is a laryngologist?
This is what happens to lungs and diaphragm during inhalation.
The lungs expand and the diaphragm moves down.
What is counter-tenor, bass-baritone, bari-tenor, mezzo-soprano, etc.
The reason the vocal tract is special as a resonator.
What is it is adjustable?
The 4 step process of creating speech sound.
What is respiration, phonation, resonation, and articulation?
This is what happens during exhalation.
The diaphragm relaxes/moves up and the volume of the thoracic cavity decreases, while the pressure within it increases. As a result, the lungs contract and air is expelled.
Swelling of the vocal folds that impedes their ability to vibrate and make sound waves.
What is laryngitis?
The two requirements for a resonator.
What is a hollow space and an opening?
How we hold ourselves or use our body inefficiently, or a result of "preparing for impact," causing damage to our muscles over the long run.
What is tension?