Voice Theory 1

Question 1

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Answer 1

Breathing is a reflex action.

Question 2

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Answer 2

Breathing supplies oxygen to the blood.

Question 3

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Answer 3

When carbon dioxide reachers a a certain tension in the blood stream breathing muscles are stimulated into contraction

Question 4

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Answer 4

The muscles contract enlarging the chest cavity

Question 5

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Answer 5

The dome of the diagram flattens and the external intercostals move the ribs out and up, expanding the thorax.

Question 6

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Answer 6

Breath passes into the lungs equalising the pressure between the air in the lungs and the air outside.

Question 7

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Answer 7

The muscles cease to contract and the chest cavity returns to its normal size.

Question 8

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Answer 8

Breath passes out as the size of the lungs is reduced and the diaphragm returns to its normal dome shape.

Question 9

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Answer 9

In passive breath this process occurs naturally between inspiratory muscular action and the elastic recoil action of the lungs.

Question 10

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Answer 10

However, in the formalised voice production these actions must be regulated as controlled for the use in the phrasing and the volume.

Question 11

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Answer 11

Therefore the actor must learn diaphragmatic intercostal breathing, employing conscious use of expiratory breath flow through the diaphragmatic movement and internal intercostal muscle control.