Chapter 1
Summary
-Chapter 1 is basically a critique on different ways to describe characteristics of someone's voice. He uses terms on a continum including: bright-dark, back-swallowed, breathy-clear, clean-raspy, healthy-damaged, nasal-non-nasal, vibrant-straigtht tone, in tune-not in tune, good diction-poor diction, and sylistically incorrect-sylistically correct. He then provides examples of each characteristic for the listener to subjectively determine which example matches which qualities. The end of the chapter lists some listening exercises of different performers in different styles and includes charts of how others would describe their voices.
Application
-Knowing these terms and ways to describe voice charactristics is important to know when I'm listening to my own students. It is helpful to be able to recognize and identify in others these kinds of characteristics.
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