Phonation Test

• Thyroid
• Cricoids
• Arytenoids

• Lowest cartilage
• Shaped like a signet ring
• Froms foundation
• Sits on top of the trachea

• Above cricoid
• Largest cartilage
• Similar to a shield
• Adam's Apple at front
• Four horns (superior=top; inferior=bottom)

• Rocks up and down
• Slides forward and back
• Synovial joint allows it to move

• Sit on the back of the cricoid
• Three pointed tips: muscular process in back, apex at top, vocal process in front

• Side to Side
• Pivot
• Synovial joint allows movement

Cartilage keeps foor or liquid from entering the trachea and lungs.

• Inside the larynx
• Vocal Folds
• External thyroarytenoid
• Cricothyroid
• Interarytenoid
• Cricoarytenoid

• Come together and Vibrate
• Multiple layers
• - internal thyroarytenoid (vocalis)
• - vocal ligament (covers conus elasticus)
• - Reinke's Space

• Fills space between vocalis and walls of thryroid
• Helps close the vocal folds by pulling forward on the arytenoids when contracted

• Attached to the outer surface of the cricoid and inner surface of the thyroid
• When contracted, thyroid pulls forward and downward and pulls the cricoid backward, stretching vocal chords

• Open and close glottis (space between vocal chords)
• Inter.=pull the two arytenoids together
• Crico.=lateral closes; posterioir open

Closing of vocal chords

Opening of vocal chords

• Breath
• Resonance
• Phonation issues cannot be fixed by fixing "phonation"

Imagination and sensation vocabulary needed to sing correct pitches

Too little air

Excess breath flow of pressure

• How to smoothly transistion
• How to maintain once you get there

• Blending of heavy & light
• Good modal voice is when you can build on one pitch

• Occurs when vocal chords are closed and then blown apart (on a vowel sound)
• Solution: begin on air

• Breathy, vocal chords are not together
• Solution: Additional breath & energy; staccato singing, nasal sound

• Vocal chords too closed
• Solution: silent inhale

Additional breathiness & relaxation

• Glottal noise at end os a phrase cause by stopping vocal chords before stopping breath
• Solution: difficult, release by stopping breath flow rather than closing valve

Better use of breath

• Trills, Scales, Melismas, Intervals
• Balance support with thin, but efficient chord function

• Pair notes
• Small distance & small rhythmic pattern
• Use various intervals

• Speed: 5-7 x/second
• Width: 1/2 step
• None: encourage flexibility and support
• Nervous Vibrato: bleat or tremelo, fast & uneven

D-flat

D-flat at Middle C & the next D-flat 8va

E-flat

E-flat at Middle C and the E-flat 8va

G-flat

G-flat at Middle C & the G-flat 8va

Air flow through a narrow section of tube creates a suction due to a drop in air pressure and results in increased air speed.