| To: "'vocalist'" <vocalist> Subject: gargle: Baritone Upper Register Hook Date sent: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 09:15:40 -0600 Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Dr. Clark, Thank you for the definition. I was attempting to employ the gargle a moment ago - the vibrant sensations resonated from what seemed to be the tip of my uvula to the bridge of my nose. Quite the eye opener & shakes the cobwebs loose! I'll try not to overdo the gargle or the quacking sounds (although I do use the animal sounds during my renditions of "If I were a rich man" when Tevye describes how his yard would be filled so that: "each loud quack and cluck and honk and gobble will land like a trumpet on the ear"!
I hope the snow storms have passed you by unscathed as well as for the folks out east & north.
E.V. in a somewhat cold Chicago
----Original Message----- >From: DIANE M. CLARK (MUSIC DEPARTMENT) >Subject: Re: Baritone Upper Register Hook >Date: Friday, January 28, 2000 11:14 PM >No, I don't mean gargle with liquid, tho you might start out that way if your >muscles seem reluctant to work. I mean singing an an extended version of the >uvular R (used in German and French). We don't use this sound in English, so >those muscles are lazy.
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