The Hybrid Teacher: Expanding the Vocal Pedagogy Regime

The world of professional vocal training is becoming more and more eclectic and demanding in the United States. Academic music programs, and subsequently, vocal and vocal pedagogy programs are still predominantly classical in 2022, due to the American university system’s historical roots. In the 21st century, the commercial music industry is at an all-time high. However, in contemporary academia, vocal and vocal pedagogy degree programs remain primarily classical. In recent years, voice professionals have been discussing the implications of academic programs updating their programs and pedagogy in order to include professional CCM and hybrid training. Classical, CCM and hybrid singers need assured longterm vocal health, proficiency, and artistry via pedagogically-sound vocal training. The question is, “How will more voice teachers will be trained in hybrid techniques to meet this need?” Changes to academic courses and requirements are necessary to ensure that hybrid (classical and nonclassical) vocal pedagogy is offered more broadly to all voice-teachers-in-training. Collegiate vocal pedagogy must make a greater effort to meet industry standards for singers of every musical style, moving away from predominantly classical styles to a hybrid system which acknowledges classical and nonclassical styles as equally valid and challenging. The hybrid voice teacher understands classical and nonclassical singing and can modify teaching techniques to suit the interests and abilities of their voice students. Training for the hybrid voice teacher must begin in academia. Academic training for the hybrid teacher ensures that more voice teachers are working, a broader range of future voice professionals have solid technical foundations, and industry standards for all styles of singing are acknowledged, respected, and upheld by professional voice teachers. This dissertation will look at the understanding of scientific function as being of prime importance in teaching healthy singing. In studying classical and belted vocal techniques functionally, many differences are noticeable in voice science. The first part of this paper will focus on current research and theory related to functional belting and functional classical singing techniques, and their application to various sung musical styles. By comparing functional singing during classical versus belted technique, one can denote any differences in posture, breath, registration, resonance, and acoustics. The second part of the paper offers applied exercises and explanations for in-studio application of the information offered in Part I. These exercises mirror the pedagogical areas explored in Part I (posture and breathing, registration, resonance, and acoustics), offering training techniques that acknowledge technical differences between classical and belted singing inside the hybrid studio. To close Part II, vocal cross-training implications will be explored

4-H Keep Well One : Extension Circular 10-01-2

In this 4-H Keep Well project, we will discuss some important things that are directly related to health, individuals vary as to type of build. Some belong to the tall slender type, some to the short stocky type, and others to the average. We differ because we have inherited different tendencies and because we have treated our bodies differently

Automation and Its Effect on Teaching Bookkeeping on the Secondary Level

Automation has effected the teaching of the course bookkeeping. To be effective, high school bookkeeping must teach the students to master bookkeeping concepts, enabling him to cope with the data processing techniques of the business world. It is the purpose of this study (1) to show that automation has not changed the basic bookkeeping principles1 (2) there are many misconceptions about automation; (3) automation is not new; and (4) automation is having a drastic effect on teaching bookkeeping. Automation development has been misunderstood, feared, and avoided by many. However, it is not to be feared. With this in mind, it is the duty of the business educators to better understand it, clear misconceptions, and modify the existing bookkeeping curriculum. Modification is the means of preparing the bookkeeping students for jobs after graduation. After graduation, the high school student does not step into a specifically designed job; instead he steop into one of a series of related jobs that commulatively compose the data processing system

The Fourth H is for Health : Extension Circular 10-01-2

Because your health is effected by your habits, this unit of the 4-H health project is devoted to the study of personal health habits. You are expected to study your habits, determine ways for improvement and to correct some of your faults. Usually, it is advisable to try to change only a few faults at a time; rather than all of them at once. If you continuously work at self improvement, you will be surprised at how fast your health habits improve

Contextual and Stylistic Considerations

PEst-OE/EAT/UI0693/2014 SFRH/BPD/99889/2014The Missa Miserere mihi is an anonymous mass composed for eight voice parts preserved in Munich 6, one in the series of the famous codices from the Alamire Workshops of Mechelen and Brussels. Ittakes pride of place in a manuscript intended for the Munich court chapel of Duke Wilhelm IV, Duke of Bavaria dating from the early 1520s. The opening folios of the Kyrie eleison include the coat of arms of the Bavarian dukes. Other masses in this manuscript choirbook are by Antonius Divitis, Noel Bauldeweyn, Jheronimus Vinders and Nicholas Champion. The mass is made up of differing types of textures, with the sonority sometimes expanding up to thirteen voice parts at cadence points. The contrapuntal fabricis both imitiative and non-imitative, and also includes homophonic passages to accompany important phrases in the mass text. The circumstances of the composition of this mass are not yet certain. However, it is interesting to note that the Munich chapel had a taste for such large-scale works: among the choirbooks is a copy of Brumel’s famous ‘Earthquake mass’, the twelve-voice Missa et ecce terra mortus, which in many ways may be regarded as a predecessor of the Miserere Mihi mass. Brumel’s mass was still used at the Munich court during the time of the chapelmastership of Orlando Lassus during the second half of the sixteenth century.authorsversionpublishe

An Action-Oriented Assessment of the Housing and Social Support Needs of Long-Term Psychiatric Clients

This paper describes the context and process, as well as the content, of an assessment of the housing and social support needs of long-term psychiatric clients in a community. The principles of the ecological perspective were used as a framework for conceptualizing and analyzing the data. Using key informant interviews, community forums, and a survey of the clients, it was found that a visible minority of the population has significant housing problems and lacks adequate aftercare and supervision. The ways in which the data have been utilized are described, along with directions for further action

further identification and classification of a lost collection

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