Human voice

Beginning about 40,000 BCE, ancient people used drawing on cave walls to express their thoughts. Piled up stones represented directions and boundaries. People used smoke signals by day and beacon fires by night in ancient China, Egypt, and Greece. Drums also were employed in many parts of the world to extend the range of the human voice for communication. Pigeon post was a major method in traditional China to communicate between distant points; people used the speed of flight and easily distinguished direction to deliver a message tied to a pigeon’s foot to transmit important or urgent messages. Creative development of communication extended to ways to deliver fairly specific information. Among some ethnic minorities of China, bamboo was…

The voices we use every day may not seem to be of importance when thinking about an individual’s identity, however the human voice is something worth paying attention to. Some people have different voices that they use for different environments, while others have one main voice they use to communicate with people in their surroundings. In “Speaking in Tongues”, Zadie Smith explains the up and downsides of speaking with more than one voice, as it can either provide flexibility for things in life…

In order for proper safe and healthy singing techniques one most understand how the velum, pharynx, tongue, jaw, lips and how they work together. A singer must also understand how all of these muscles make up the structure that contributes to production of sustained singing voice. The soft palate is responsible for closing off the nasal passages when one swallows, and also for closing off the airway. When someone sneezes, it protects the nasal passage by directing a portion of the substance to…

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…

The voice pitch is a trait that has evolved through sexual selection of humans and has become sexually dimorphic. This trait is sexually dimorphic because for males the voice pitch has the tendency to be lower and this because the ‘adam’s apple’ is a thicker layer of cartilage that influence the vocal cords in males along with higher testosterone levels predict low voice men.. For females, the voice pitch tends to be lower because without this extra layers of cartilage makes the vocal cords have…

In "For More than One Voice", the Italian feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero underlines the singular and embodied materiality of voice, while emphasizing the fact that voice is primarily relational and always creates a mutual resonance among unique human beings. Moreover, Cavarero interprets vocal exchange as the paradigm of a politics that is based on “the reciprocal communication of voices” and that find an ideal dimension in “a kind of song 'for more than one voice' whose melodic principle…

Singing is anatomical: the brain thinks, and the body responds, any time and any place, that is, if lifestyle behaviors have not deformed the vocal instrument (i.e., excessive spicy foods, alcohol, smoking, screaming, et cetera). Singing begins with an exhalation of human vocal sounds (phonation) (NIDCD, 2015). At the point of phonation, two smooth adjacent muscle tissues in the thorax come into contact and vibrate to create resonating sound waves from the throat, mouth, and nose (NIDCD, 2015).…

This was horrible. A class about monster tracking...great. I pull up on my black silk gloves they were a part of my uniform, along with a black and red plaid skirt, black saddle shoes, white knee high socks, and a white sweater. I hated it, but I had no choice, nobody can know how different I am. “Right class, what do you do when you see a monster,” asked Mrs. Shard in an annoying high-pitched voice that made my ears bleed. I wanted to flinch, but I couldn't for no one heard what I did.…

cannot sing. However, singing is just an extension of one’s regular speaking voice. Only someone with a physical disability which bars them from discerning pitch or producing sounds actually cannot physically sing. As Marshall explains, “The quality of the voice is dependent on many factors; however, barring a physical or vocal disability, everyone can learn to sing well enough to sing basic songs” (Marshall). Just like learning to cook or ride a bike, the more work and time one is willing to…

A voice is an attribute that many people take for granted. A person’s voice can be large and loud or could be soft and small; but we all have a voice inside. All voices are important and fragile to an extent, but the most fragile is a child’s voice. Sometimes a voice is all a child has. Many things can affect a child’s voice, for the positive and for the negative. Negative influences and events can change or kill a child’s voice forever. Life altering events such as abuse, and neglect are…