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Performing Media:

Performing Media:. Voices and Instruments. The Voice. Throughout history, singing has been the most widespread and familiar way to make and share music. Ancient Greek drama included a chorus.

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Performing Media:

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  1. Performing Media: Voices and Instruments

  2. The Voice • Throughout history, singing has been the most widespread and familiar way to make and share music. • Ancient Greek drama included a chorus. • Singers have always had a magnetic appeal. Today many singers become the most popular people of their respective cultures

  3. The Voice • There is something magical in the connection between singer and audience. • The voice is the only instrument that can fuse a word with musical tone. Thus poetry and singing have been forever linked.

  4. How it works. • Air from the lungs passes the vocal cords causing them to vibrate and make sound. • The pitch of the sound is determined by the tension of the cords. (Tighter=higher, Looser=lower) • The timbre of the sound is determined by several factors including the throat, mouth, tongue, and nasal cavity. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XGds2GAvGQ

  5. Vocal Range • A well trained classical singer will command a pitch range that spans a little more than 2 octaves • Most amateur or untrained voices command 1.5 or less.

  6. Vocal Classifications • Soprano • Alto • Tenor • Bass In most cases the female voice is higher than the male due to the size of the vocal cords The four basic vocal ranges are; This will be further broken down on the next slide

  7. Vocal Classifications Female: High to Low Male: High to Low Tenor Baritone Bass • Soprano • Mezzo-Soprano • Alto (or Contralto)

  8. Soprano Classically Trained Non-Classical Mariah Carey Julie Andrews (Sound of Music) Anne Hathaway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IA3ZvCkRkQ • KiriTeKanawa • Renee Flemming • Anna Natrebko • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuYQ9KRJms

  9. Mezzo-Soprano Classically Trained Non-Classical Beyonce Whitney Houston Madonna http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipQ0fE0MRWQ • Marilyn Horne • Cecilia Bartoli • Frederica Von Stade • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL614LDMASg

  10. Alto or Contralto Classically Trained Non-Classical Adele Etta James Alicia Keys Amy Winehouse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUmZp8pR1uc • Marian Anderson • Ernestine Schumann-Heink • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EkIRLnSj7k *The operatic or classically trained contralto is possibly one of the rarest of voice types.

  11. Tenor Classical Non-Classical Michael Jackson Ewan McGregor Bruno Mars Justin Timberlake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjBY99XmqAU • Luciano Pavarotti • Placido Domingo • Enrico Caruso • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0PMq4XGtZ4

  12. Baritone Classical Non-Classical Frank Sinatra Michael Buble Josh Groban Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYgqZYQYzwA • Robert Merrill • Dmitri Hvorostovsky • Bryn Terfel • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1fmtMMDrLk

  13. Bass Classical Non-Classical Johnny Cash Barry White http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpPQBL7PNhs • James Morris • Rene Pape • Nicolai Ghiarov • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oMjRhlaMaI

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