Why Bother with Acoustic Vocal Pedagogy?

Most of the acoustic energy activated by singing stays within the vocal tract—only a small percentage is radiated for the outside world to hear.  This internal reverberating energy is powerful. It interacts with the vibrating vocal folds, either helping or hindering their function, and requires skilful resonance tuning per situation (per pitch, vowel, laryngeal and acoustic register, and timbral aesthetic) to maximize functional efficiency.  Tuning vocal tract resonances well is therefore an exceptionally fruitful pedagogic strategy and depends upon an understanding of the auditory and somatosensory output targets of singing and how they necessarily migrate across range and acoustic register transitions.  This course will introduce the most relevant aspects of psychoacoustics, the main components of acoustic vocal pedagogy, illustrate them with singer examples, and demonstrate applications, using the descriptive, subjective, sensorial language of procedural knowledge, the form of knowledge essential for guiding motor behaviour.

🏷️ Price £30 (UK VAT inclusive)
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