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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' 
and 'Speaker Four', add DUH before Buzz 00:35:00 Comments about Diction and Musical theater/completing every word in choral music 00:36:42 Adding variety to repetitive sequences and how to crescendo correctly using 'Speaker Three
and Four' 00:38:19 How to add brilliance and the 'four speakers' for a 'f' sound and then change to a warm
sound 00:40:16 Commenting on emotion and mood 00:41:08 'S', 'T' general cutoffs 00:42:58 Final rehearsal techniques, Mick Jagger square lips, brace 00:44:31 Sing through of 'Deep River' 00:49:18 Passion, the most important ingredient 00:50:17 A Joyful Alleluia - (also in SSA) reinforcing all techniques in a piece with only one word throughout 'Alleluia' Two crescendos, nasal pharynx, body, tongue position, flair nostrils, elongated speech, Alleluia (scared vs. secular), hissing, separation of words, pulse on speech, pressing out and sustaining tone, warm/brilliant tones, roof focus, marching cadence, vowels present in mouth, 'p' to 'f', using D in front of each vowel, 00:56:40 Sing 'How do you do' on Alleluia line for oo vowel, hiss on 16th notes, fish lips/square lips, also buh & pub 00:57:56 To gain vitality, whisper your name louder and louder to build energy, and think of more joy each time. 00:58:40 Sing through of 'A Joyful Alleluia' 01:02:30 Cutoffs affecting pitch 01:03:25 Vibrato: Hands pulsing forward Slinky Spin String Instrument, Circles/Iron Out, Hummingbird Syndrome 01:07:24 Intonations: Use oo (boot) focus to lower pitch and E focus to raise pitch 01:07:54 Question: Expanding non-singers range 01:11:10 Question: How do you impart more power to Elementary girls without hurting their voices and gain confidence to sing out? 01:13:15 Question: Falsetto vs. head voice 01:14:50 Closing Remarks 01:15:35 Article: "Singing in Choirs strikes a healthy note" from Orange County, CA Register newspaper 01:17:00 Final inspirational quotes and thoughts

Linda Spevacek
Tempe, Arizona
lspevacek@cox.net
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