Kinesthesia/Awareness
This is the sense that detects your body in motion
What is Kinesthesia.
BONUS: Name one of the many parts of the body that primarily house our sensory receptors
This is a term that is preferable to posture when referencing the way that a singer should hold oneself.
What is alignment?
BONUS: How many points of balance are there?
This form of matter has a tendency to maintain equal pressure by moving into lower pressure environments.
What is a gas?
BONUS: What part of the body creates a low pressure environment during the breathing process?
This is the source of a sung sound.
BONUS: What structure is directly above the larynx?
This is the opening in the larynx, defined by the arytenoid cartilages and the vocal folds.
What is the glottis?
BONUS: This is term for separation, such as of the vocal folds.
Of the types of awareness, this is the most beneficial for singers because it helps them perform in relationship with their circumstances and surroundings.
BONUS: Name one other type of awareness that is less helpful.
This is a place at which two bones, two cartilages, or a bone and a cartilage meet.
What is a joint?
BONUS: What type of tissue connects bones at the joint?
This muscle membrane exerts downward pressure on the viscera.
What is the diaphragm?
BONUS: What broadly constitutes the other primary muscles of inhalation?
This is the phenomenon that is directly responsible for the pitch of a sound.
What is frequency OR rate of vibration.
BONUS: What muscle forms the body of the vocal fold?
This is elastic, fibrous tissue that is capable of contraction.
What is a muscle?
BONUS: This is the term for bringing together, such as of the vocal folds.
This is your conception of your body in its entirety.
What is the Body Map or Body Mapping.
BONUS: Name two of the prescribed aspects of the body map.
This Point of Balance should be balanced first.
What is the A/O joint?
BONUS: What is A/O short for?
These are two examples of rib lifting muscles.
What are the scalenes, intercostals, pectoralis, latissimus dorsi, serratus anterior, serratus posterior superior, or levatores costarum.
BONUS: How many phases of breath are there?
This is the intrinsic laryngeal muscle that thickens and shortens the vocal fold to manipulate pitch.
What is the thyroarytenoid?
BONUS: Name the other intrinsic muscle responsible for pitch.
This structural cartilage of the larynx is shaped like a signet ring and sits at the base of the larynx.
BONUS: To which structural cartilage does the Cricoid attach, allowing it to pivot?
This is the term for exploring something by touch.
What is palpation or palpating.
BONUS:
This is how movement occurs.
What is muscle contraction or shortening?
BONUS: To what part of the body should a sitting body deliver its weight?
This is the bone to which most of the ribs connect at the front of the body.
BONUS: How many ribs connect to the sternum via costal cartilage?
This is a series of tones that have a similar vocal production.
What is a register?
BONUS: Which register involves a complete release of the thyroarytenoid muscles?
This pair of laryngeal cartilages attach to the vocal folds at the back of the larynx.
What are the arytenoid cartilages?
BONUS: This cartilage covers the top of the larynx and moves to accommodate swallowing.
This is the manner in which we can remain buoyant and free without actively engaging in full body movement.
What is micromovement?
BONUS:
This spinal region contains 5 vertebrae.
What is the lumbar region of the spine?
BONUS: Name 2 additional spinal regions.
This group of muscles operates in dynamic equilibrium with the diaphragm during inhalation.
What are the pelvic floor muscles?
BONUS: What are the structures that connect the lungs to the diaphragm?
This set of terms refer to the initiation and termination of phonation.
What are onset and offset.
BONUS: What term do we use to describe the energy created below the vocal folds during phonation?
These muscles open the vocal folds, such as during inhalation.
What are the posterior cricoarytenoids?
BONUS: Which register involves a complete release of the cricothyroids?