In a message dated 4/8/01 11:44:06 PM Central Daylight Time, lloyd.hanson@n... writes: lloyd.hanson@n... writes:
> Randy and Vocalisters: > > I was not expressing a need to teach a raised soft palate as much as > an awareness that this occurs quite naturally with the formation of > some vowels. > > Thanks for the note. > >
That's cool. I had a rather disturbing conversation with a young, very stubborn singer who kept ascribing mysterious properties to the soft palate and the masque. When I talked to him about medial compression regardless of registers, and vowel modifications, he acted as if the larynx had nothing to do with phonation and that the cords should be parted and relaxed, which of course would make it impossible to make sound. He also insisted that nodes were caused by weak cords.
This poor child had obviously worked with some good singers from what he'd told me (met singers), but like lots of great singers that teach they are mostly ignorant of physiology and function. Those teachers are left to pass along subjective experiences as fact, when they have nothing to do with fact as possible.
Sorry if I came off as a little hasty Lloyd. The conversation with that singer about the velum really rubbed me the wrong way.
Randy Buescher
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