Sandra,
My first thought is that it doesn't mean much at all. Phonation requires breath, so the idea of singing "off" the breath doesn't give us a real comparison of what we might do otherwise. That thought aside, I would say that "singing on the breath" means a balance of the forces of breath (exhalation) and the forces of the adduction (closing) muscles of the larynx. It means enough subglottic pressure to get the feeling of appoggio, but not so much that you get a "pushed" sound.
My two cents, David Grogan East Texas Baptist University Marshall, Texas
Subject: [vocalist] Singing on the breath...
> what does this term mean to ya'll? > > thanks, > Sandra >
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