About Session
The evolution and accumulation of a pedagogy that has ecological validity across multiple voice types and genres draws from many sources: historic pedagogic writings, successful historic pedagogy, emerging voice science, reported perceptions of high-level performers, plus years of practitioner studio experience. Though whenever possible it is grounded in declarative knowledge (the science-informed established facts of efficient function), effective pedagogy necessarily ventures into the subjective perceptions of the largely sensorial, procedural knowledge of the performer—what it feels and sounds like to sing with efficiency. This presentation will present a distilled list and elaboration of those concepts that were most pedagogically transformative in the presenter’s 50 year teaching experience, ranging from the necessary migrations of sound and sensation across range and register transitions to beneficial articulatory and resonance tuning strategies. They arose from finding mutually confirming correlations between successful historic pedagogy, emerging voice science, the presenter’s research into acoustic vocal pedagogy, and his resultant experience-gleaned observations.
