Mock Exam Flashcards
What structures relate to power, source and filter?
Power: Lungs
Source: True Vocal Folds
Filter: Vocal Tract
Name the two articulators.
Lip, tongue
What is the function of the articulators?
To shape vowels and consonants.
When the True Vocal Folds are in a closed fase is sound: more or less intense?
Less intense.
Changes in _______ makes soundwaves.
Air pressure.
What are the 3 main disiplines of estill training?
Craft, Artistry and Performance magic.
Describe the bernuli effect.
As air flows through the glottis, the True Vocal folds get sucked together bringing them into vibration.
Describe effort.
In the case of how hard and where the muscles are working on a scale of 1-10.
Give 3 relaxation movements.
Tongue rolling/ Cleaning teeth, head and neck rolling, chewing.
Name and describe the breathing technique used for singing.
Recoil. A sensation of breath rushing through the body without actively taking a breath.
Voice use is a dynamic system, give an example.
Complex series of linked structures that are all linked and lowering or raising one another will cause and effect another to produce voice. Example: a short clavicular breath will raise the larynx.
What do you understand is attractor state.
Postion of stability within the voice.
What is your attractor state?
Low larynx, high tongue, smooth onsets.
Clavicular breathing is used in what voice quality?
Belt.
Name and describe the 3 True Vocal Fold onsets and offsets.
Aspirate (Gradual, Abrupt): vocal folds don’t fully close. Breath comes before the sound.
Smooth: breath and vocal folds closure happen simutaneously.
Glottal: sound/ ture vocal folds then breath comes through after.
What are the 4 True Vocal Fold body covers?
Thick, Thin, Stiff, Slack.
What structure can be found in a mid, constricted and retracted state?
False Vocal Folds.
Identify a type of retraction that would sustain the above structure.
Silent laughing.
True vocal folds are _____ and _____ at low pitches and _____ and _____ at high pitches.
Low pitches: Thick and short.
High pitches: Thin and long.
Name the intrinstic pharyngeal cartilage that closes to deflect food and water down the oesophagus.
Epiglottis.
What is the glottis?
Space between the True Vocal Folds.
What is the vocal fold body cover that can be used to reset the layrnx?
Slack folds.
What can sirens determine?
Passggios and your full vocal range.
Describe myroning.
Sirening whilst mouthing the words.
Name the two main cartilages in the larynx and their function.
Thyroid and Cricoid cartilage. Both can be vertical or tilted.
In twang what is narrowed?
Aryeppiglottis Spincter (AES).
What structure has it’s roots at the front of the throat and what 3 conditions can it be placed in?
Tongue: High, Mid, Low.
Name the 4 jaw conditions.
Foward, Mid, Back, Dropped.
Name the 3 main lip conditions.
Protruded, Mid, Spread.
What lip conditions makes the vocal tract longer/ shorter?
Protruded: longer.
Spread: shorter.
What is another name for the velum?
Soft Pallette.
What is the velopharyngeal port?
Doorway from velum/ back door to the nose.
In a high, mid and low velum condition what are the resonances?
High: oral.
Mid: nasalized.
Low: nasal.
Descirbe anchoring.
Is technique where the bigger muscles are used to support the smaller muscles so the smaller muscles don’t have to work as hard.
Name the 2 complusory anchoring figures and their conditions.
Head and neck anchoring. Torso anchoring. Conditions: anchored and relaxed.
What muscles are used in torso anchoring?
Pectoralis major, Quadratus lumborum, Latissimus dorsi.
What are the parts of the tongue?
A - Body B - Tip C - Blade D - Dorsum E - Root
What and where are the sternoclidomastiods (SCM)?
What?: muscles that help and support head and neck anchoring.
Where?: behind skull that run to the neck underneath the ears and connect to the chest.
Name the 3 conditions of larynx height?
High, mid, low.
Name the 6 estill voice qualities.
Speech Sob Falsetto Twang Belt Opera
Prompts to lower your larynx.
Gasp, imagine singing a very low note, opera singer.
Prompts to raise your larynx.
Scream, imagine singing a very high note, short/ sharp breath.
What is effort key to avoiding?
Larngeal constriction.
What do the infrahyoid muscles do?
Lower the larynx.
What do the suprahyoid muscles do?
Raise the larynx.
What is the subglottis?
Pressure below the True Vocal Folds.
What is volume linked to?
Linked to pressure of breath below folds (thicker folds = louder, thinner folds = quieter).
Name the parts of the larynx.
Hyoid Bone False Vocal Folds True Vocal Folds Arytenoids Epiglottis Cricoid cartilage Thyroid cartilage Trachea
