Vocal Performance

Question 1

typically have no formal training and sing primarily for enjoyment

Answer 1

amateur singers

Question 2

typically untrained or have a limited amount of vocal training and enjoy singing for community/social interaction

Answer 2

Community choral singer and theater performer

Question 3

typically trained vocalistis and perform occasionally for monetary compensation

Answer 3

Semiprofessionals

Question 4

professional group of isngers by occupation. Their job encompasses both the singing and the speaking voice.

Answer 4

Music educators

Question 5

perform for their primary occupation

Answer 5

Professional singers

Question 6

Demands placed on the voice when singing:

Answer 6

• producing rapid changes in frequency, intensity, and sound duration

Question 7

• originally developed as a method of vocal training for singers and actors in the 1890s
• believed that the mind and body functioned as an integrated entity, a rather unusual realization at the time
• technique deals with the psychophysical coordination of the whole person

Answer 7

Alexander Technique

Question 8

• synthesizes information from physics, motor development, biomechanics, psychology, and martial arts to develop an application demonstrating the lack of separation between thought, feeling, eprception, and action
• teaches singers to improve problems of tension, muscle strain, and illness in order to obtain optimal vocal performance

Answer 8

Feldenkrais Method

Question 9

Uses 13 vocal exercises to establish control over a specific structure of the vocal mechanism, in isolation, by moveing the structure through a number of positions

Answer 9

Estill voice training