In a message dated 1/21/2001 11:22:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
lloyd.hanson@n... writes:
lloyd.hanson@n... writes:
<< Your self experiments with opening and closing the nasal port and your
noticed effect on sub-glottal pressure indicates that you are controling
breath pressure more with your vocal folds than with your breath management
system.
If breath is managed through the balance of the muscles of inhalation and
exhalation the vocal folds will never have to become a primary valve in
control of breath but can function more freely as an oscillation source
that is energized by the breath. >>
lloyd,
these two approaches produce different sounds and having the ability to
do both allows the singer the option to chose what is more appropriate to the
material being sung. in the singing of a number of non-classical styles,
particulary the ones that are closest to speech, using the folds as a valve
to control the breath produces the more appropriate sounds as this is the
approach that more closely resembles the one used in speech. (there is a
minority of speakers who, even during 'normal' conversation, maintain the
'noble posture' and the traditional breath managment of the international
school. i don't include this group when i refer to the general tendencies
of speech.)
mike
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