vocal folds, which increases years of healthy singing beyond age 65. Mehrling (1980) reports the aging process slows down the collagen process in skin, tissues, and muscles that become thinner and stiffer, which causes the speaking and singing voice range to lower. Oftentimes common problems are easily corrected by proper posture, breathing and support, phonation, registration, resonation, articulation, and coordination of the anatomy (McKinney, 1994; Miller, 1996).…
Dear Principal, Hot for lava and hard for beds! We should be allowed to take a trip to the Lava Beds. The Lava Beds are located in northeastern California and are the largest formed from volcano eruptions. It is also known as California’s “best kept secret” because of its location. We should go to the Lava Beds because of education, features, exercise and leisure. A visit to the lava beds would provide a significant history lesson. The history, landscape, and findings would be beneficial to…
Snoqualmie Pass East According Wikipedia.org, located in state of Washington are the beautiful Cascade Mountains. Snoqualmie Pass is located in the at the center of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, and is a total area of 2.9 miles, with the Mountain's elevation of 3022'. The Washington State Transportation Department tells us that “Native Americans on both sides of the mountains carved foot trails across the Central Cascades, including Snoqualmie Pass,” The site continues to inform that the…
Alexus Fields Ms. Wernersbach and Mrs. Spears English II April 4 Modern Day Tragic Hero Research Paper:Whitney Houston Born on August 9, 1963, Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress. Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress whose first four albums, released between 1985 and 1992, and amassed global sales in excess of 86 million copies. Whitney Houston began singing in church as a child. Whitney Houston is a modern day tragic hero because she was an amazing singer. She had…
When you hear an amazing singer with a great voice, you might ask yourself what the normal life span of such a voice might be, and whether proper training or certain techniques prevent vocal cords deteriorating with age, and if surgery or some sort of special gel could correct such problems Voice experts believe that one should think of singers as athletes, using muscles in what is, after all a very physical activity. Professional singer, as well as acting as voice instructor at the Minneapolis…
Vallario as he draws the nose at the point at which crosses the vertical on the oval. He then sketched out the base of the nose and a nostril both sides and divides the bottom quarter in half again. Then he draws bottom of the lips, which, rests on the dividing line he just drew. Then he finishes it off by drawing the top lip. As he explains each step to the student he makes sure they are listening and doing the proper steps. They all cooperate and go at the same pace so no one feels like they…
When comparing Claudio Monteverdi’s compositional techniques in his madrigal “Dorinda, ah dirò” to what was traditionally expected in the prima practice, one notices a nonchalant treatment of dissonances, as well as an overall quickened sense of rhythm and far too many liberations in melodic writing. While observing Monteverdi’s madrigal, one notices several instances of note-against note dissonances. The first instance (example 1.1) displays dissonances of a seventh and a ninth between the…
“What 's your guy 's decision?” Muhammad respectfully asks. “We have made a final decision. We are going to let you go to North Cascade National Park. We think it would be a great experience for you” Mr. Blackwood explains. “Sweet! Thank you guys, I’m super excited to go!” Muhammad claims with excitement The next day, Muhammad goes to school and talks to his friends about the trip. He explains how his parents are allowing…
The 2004 movie, The Phantom of the Opera, is based off the original 1986 musical that was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The actual movie is also produced by Webber and is directed by Joel Schumacher. It was released in the United States in December of 2004 and has been a hit ever since. The musical is still very popular and is performed on stages across the world to this day. Each musical scene in The Phantom of the Opera is sung in opera, so one has to have a special talent to perform. Some…
one and 6 in round two, the number of respondents who agreed with questions asked, increased to a fourth quartile range of 13 and inter-quartile range of 9.5. Overall there was a higher rate of agreement in the first round Delphi, than the second round Delphi. Although, the number of respondents dropped to 6 in the second round, the fourth quartile range was 4, with an inter-quartile range of 2.25 agreements. In addition, assessing the homogeneity of respondents followed an identification of…