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Tape I
Beginning Description
00:00:00 Opening Remarks
00:02:29 Band director joke
00:03:00 My funny Valentine joke
00:04:15 Humor in the classroom
00:05:32 Introduction to techniques in the classroom
00:06:24 The Choral Teacher as Vocal Teacher
00:12:52 Quotes - Clippinger, Aristotle, Einstein
00:14:30 Posture:
00:16:50 I Am A Winner/Power Ball Winner
00:18:15 Four Stretches
00:18:42 Chest Up, Shoulders Down, Ribs Out
00:19:08 Rib Cage Expansion "Singing is a whole body experience"
00:20:50 Waist Expansion/Hissing Muscles
00:22:31 Humble Arrogance
00:23:08 Enthusiasm
00:24:17 Breathing:
00:04.54 Sing & Count
00:26:38 OO-EE (Fish Lips)
00:27:51 1a2a3a
00:29:41 Panting & Vibrato: No Sound, Slight Sound, Pulsing/Hissing
00:34:21 10 Vowels & Finding best vowel (also see 00:57:50)
00:36:50 First five vowels (DEE. DAY, DAH, DOH, DOO (boot))
00:37:48 Second five vowels (DIH, DEH, DA (cat), DUH, DOO (good/book))
00:40:09 Sit/Slash/Breath
00:41:55 Riding the breath
00:43:09 Four quick breathing tips: Lungs, Ribs, Back, (Sit/Slash/Breath-see above)
00:46:04 Four Speakers
00:47:46 Tone color is mental
00:52:10 Speaker One - Mouth (Kiss & Taste the Words)
00:53:16 Speaker Two - Throat
00:54:31 Tongue Push-Ups
00:55:47 Tongue Position
00:56:37 Tongue Position on 10 Vowels
00:57:50 Finding your best vowels
Frog Throat (see 01:02:54)
00:59:45 Speaker Three (Nasal Pharynx)
01:01:14 The drama in music is in the consonant, the beauty is in the vowel
01:01:45 Face Factor (Can you 'hear' their faces)
01:02:17 Energized the nose cartilage, flair nostrils, pant and show upper teeth
01:03:00 Pizza face/Frog throat (speaker two)
01:04:25 Fog in the goggles
01:04:43 Head voice vs. Falsetto
01:05:10 The Brace/Pull face forward
01:05:46 The 'Ah' vowel (Italian vs. German)
01:06:45 Roof focus
01:07:25 Mrs. Doubtfire
Fun words for speaker three on tape 2 (Elongated peech)
01:10:10 Speaker Four - The Body
01:10:35 Scales - Hiss two times
01:11:02 Singing out through your belly button, then all four speakers
Tape II
00:00:38 Begin Session 2
00:00:51 Singing is Elongated Speech ('Speaker Three')
00:01:10 Fun Words for 'Speaker Three'
00:04:40 'OO' (boot) Vowel - 'How do you do'
00:05:31 Breathiness
00:06:41 Marching cadence to close vocal cords
00:07:45 Swallowing to close the vocal cords
00:08:35 Intonation
00:08:48 Singing 'half steps'
00:10:30 Warmups
00:11:33 Buzzing
00:12:44 Watching for the 'Adams Apple' jump
00:15:00 MUH MUH
00:16:16 Scale using DOO (book)
00:17:17 Scale using GOO (good) on I-V7-I; good to correct nasality
00:18:35 A Choral Flourish (easily adaptable to 2 Part)
00:19:23 Preparation: Hissing, Panting, Speaking, Speak on the rhythm, pulse on breath
00:22:36 Teaching p and f
00:23:50 Teaching pp and stairstep dynamics
00:25:08 Putting vitality into the tone
00:26:09 Sing through of 'A Choral Flourish'
00:27:27 Diction Exercises
00:30:49 Deep River (adapt from SATB/3 Part to Unison)
00:31:20 Finding the 10 vowels, write the vowels in your music
00:33:30 Singing the first page of 'Deep River'
00:34:06 Buzzing to achieve octave descending jumps using 'frog throat'
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