Liz recently attended an excellent ANATS WA event on contemporary singing presented by Perth singer and teacher Liyana Yusof. Liyana referred to some of the many phone apps which are useful to singers, singing teachers and music teachers in general.
How many of these do you use?
An Apple developed multimedia technology for creating and storing video, audio, graphics, text and animation. It can be used across a variety of platform file types and plays .mov movie files.
See platform, codec
Notable for technical innovation but is tended to be dismissed for its approach and content.
During the reign of Queen Victoria which covered most of the 19th century, English drama showed the ascendancy of actors and managers and the lowering of the status and importance of playwrights. There was a move to entertainments and popular theatre forms such as music hall and a preference for melodrama, domestic tragedy and sentimental comedy.
The foreman of the grip (labourers) department. The Key Grim is in charge of a crew of grips who all have specialised skills such as mounting cameras, cranes and lighting design.
The key grip is also often the safety monitor on a film set and is responsible for the safety of all personnel on the set from situations or devices operated by other departments.
Hitting the mark: when an actor moves to a prearranged place on the stage on given lines.
Marking through a performance: in rehearsal when an actor goes through the actions and lines but does not give a fully committed performance; most often used for technical rehearsals and to preserve the voice in opera rehearsals.
It’s no secret that here at StagePage we are big fans of straw phonation.
Here are two more uses for your straw – and as always, we encourage you to use a metal or bamboo straw rather than single use plastic or paper:
If you have reluctant singers in your primary music class they could be encouraged to use a straw to ‘play’ a song at first. That way they are barely heard by their peers and at the same time they are preparing to eventually sing with an unforced sound that is forward in placement.
All students can benefit from breathing in through a straw and feeling cool air touching the soft and hard palate in the mouth. This will encourage a more rounded choir singing tone.
A simplistic and obvious manipulation of information by selection, exaggeration and appeal to people’s fears, insecurities and basic instincts. It produces an emotional response rather than a rational one, creating a sense of ‘us’ and ‘them’ and so needs an ‘enemy’ to blame. If there isn’t an enemy, propaganda creates one. Complex issues are reduced to simplistic slogan and ‘blame’.
Generally refers to the manipulation of political beliefs.
A propaganda film is a film produced (often by governments) for the express purpose of convincing the viewer of a political point. In war time, propaganda films are produced by governments to support the war effort and convince the public that it is for the good of their country.
Nazi propaganda films were commissioned by Adolf Hitler to chronicle his reign.
Triumph of the Will (1934), Olympia (1936), Reefer Madness (1938).
20th century theatre movement focusing on the “dynamism of the Machine Age”; rejected all former stage practice and argued for the inclusion of the dramatic energy of other forms such as circus, music hall and cabaret; a compression of drama into brief situations.
Influenced many later 20th Century innovations such as the use of new technologies, multimedia approaches and environmental theatre.
Last Monday we talked about simple ways by which music classroom teachers can look after their own vocal health and resilience.
An additional technique to learn for that purpose is twang.
Twang is useful for teachers because it increases vocal volume and projection without an increase in effort level – important in the classroom or in a choir rehearsal.
In essence, twang is a bright, clear (spoken or sung) sound quality produced by lowering the epiglottis slightly to narrow the aryepiglottic sphincter.
Twang is not nasality.
Twang can - but does not have to – include nasal resonance.
In simple practical ways, twang can be found and practised in your car on the way to school via these speech cues:
Make the sound of a hungry cat - ‘miaow!’
Imitate the light, high and forward placed sound of a duck quacking.
Make the sound of a young sheep bleating – ‘meh!’
Imitate a baby’s cry
Imitate the young bright sound of a playground taunt – usually starting on the falling minor 3rd - doh lah, re doh lah, - ‘nyeah nyeah nyeah nyeah nyeah!’
Sing some vowels on ‘sing –ee, sing-ah’ with emphasis on the ng as you move into the twang sound.
Remember- always keep the sound light, bright and forward in placement and use minimal vocal effort.
Happy twanging!
Many Hollywood films are said to follow a basic three act structure. Basically the beginning, middle and end or setup, confrontation and resolution.
In act 1 the characters (and their main goals) and setting are introduced and ends with the first turning point or conflict (plot point 1).
Act 2 is the longest act, characters and conflict are further developed and the act ends at plot point 2 (quite often, the hero has overcome some kind of conflict something else has thwarted their progress, everything seems lost but a renewed drive compels them to forge on).
Act 3 is the shorted act and all of the conflicts are resolved.
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