LABAN - A SYSTEM FOR TEACHING
Laban action efforts is based on four primary principles...
SPACE: Direct/Indirect ("Flexible")
WEIGHT: Heavy/Light ("Strong")
TIME: Slow/Fast ("Sustained/Sudden)
NAME: SPACE WEIGHT TIME
Press D H S
Wring I H S
Gliding D L S
Floating I L S
Punch D H F
Slashing I H F
Dabbing D L F
Flicking I L F
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Friday, 2 October 2015
Creating your own Monologue
The Colour of Justice
Yes.That is when I realised he had been stabbed, yes.
That was the information that first came out: "Hit Over the head with an Iron Bar." I could not see any wound to the head.I didn't know where the blood was coming from.Well, it wasn't obvious to me sir.Because I didn't want to move him.Because an ambulance was on it's way and I felt that he was best left in the position he was in.I didn't know he was going to bleed to death.Yes, he was.
Yes, sir.On the wrist.I cannot remember, sir.
Traditional Theatre Music
"Traditional Theatre style is quite Operatic."
- Singing long is a lush scoring.
- The sound of music focuses on the meaning of the words not the 'Vowels.'
- Opera sings on the vowels.
- Belcanto - Means how beautiful the voice is.
- Threepenny Opera, was the first way of singing in the musicals.
- They normally focused on diction while singing.
The song that I managed to find which was from a traditional genre of a Musical was, "Something Wonderful from the Musical King and I, 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein."
The reason that I picked this song was because I liked the sound of the title , as well as that I was able to relate to the lyrics, which attracted me more to the song. The song has enabled me to not be afraid to approach and learn a traditional song as I always tend to go for a lot more modernised genre of songs such as 'I'm Here from the Musical Colour Purple. Honestly from this song it has allowed me to be more comfortable and aware while I sing, to emphasise more each vowel. From being given the task of searching a Traditional Genre of music I came across "Ribbons Down My Back from the Musical Hello Dolly, 1964 Jerry Herman.
Monday, 28 September 2015
Scales
Scales
7 Distinct Pitches
The atonic key, you start with "DO"
DO/ONE
RE/TWO
MI/THREE
FA (solfege)/FOUR
SOL/FIVE
LA/SIX
TI/SEV
Number three is a scale because it goes into every atonic keys.
DO, RE (is a tone above a step)
MI, FA (is a semi-tone)
- Musical Alphabet is A - G.
- Leisure Lines
- Clef
- Key Signature
- Time Signature
- Everything you put on the 'staves' is a mines.
- The map helps you identify where everything goes.
TREBLE CLEF - You can remember the notes on the lines by the sentence Every Good Boy Deserves Football. The words in the spaces spell FACE.
B SHARP - lower the note by a semi-note, (black key on the piano)
The Anatomy of the Voice
The Abdominals
singing muscles
- External Oblique - Connect like pockets.
- Transverses abdominis - Fibres run horizontally, Controls rotary action.
- Internal Oblique - One level deeper than the externais.
- Rectus Abdominis - (Six Pack), Giant band goes around and connects, Fibres run vertically, Xiphoid Process in between.
The Anatomy of the Voice
The Anatomy of the Voice.
- An anatomical journey to the centre of the voice.
-RIBS CAGE (LUNGS ISN'T A MUSCLE)
Intercostal Muscles
When you breathe it lifts the muscles up.
-DIAPHRAGM
When it contracts the breath goes in.
The diaphragm only works with breathing in,
not when you breathe out.
LARYNX
1. Hyroid Bone (SOUND IS A VIBRATION) 2. Thyroid
3. Cricoid
4. Trachea
- Epiglottis
- Glotis
- Arythenoids
Best position for projection is with the Larynx down.
Resenation
- Increase in volume Soft palet (moves) Hard palet (doesnt move
- Vocal Chords
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