The syllables most commonly taught are ah, oh, or ooh for an open and
less restricted airway. Translated into articulation, this means attacking a
note with tah, toh, or too. I was just thumbing through the book on Arnold
Jacobs by Brian Frederikson and this is what Jacobs (among others) recommended.
Steven Slaff
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From: Steve Freides [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, April 9, 2005 8:55 pm
Subject: RE: [Hornlist] Open Throat
Short a, as in father.
When singing, ideally the throat is open for all vowels.
For ah the mouth is also wide open and the tongue flat.
Gradually raising
the tongue causes ah to become a as it cat, then eh, a
sound which
doesn't really exist in English and is instead usually mangled
into what's
known as a vanishing diphthong, followed by i as in hit and
finallyending in ee as in feet.
Closing the mouth changes ah into aw, then oh, another sound not
really present in spoken English, then finally oo as in boot.
In languages other than American English, some combinations of a
raisedtongue and a closed mouth may be found, e.g., Goethe
(properly written with
an umlaut 'o' which I don't know how to do on my American
keyboard), u
with an umlaut as in the German word for brother, most famously
rememberedby me as part of Goethe's text in Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony's final
movement.
Lest the most important concept be lost in the diction soliloquy
above, let
me repeat: When singing, ideally the throat is open for all vowels.
-S-
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What is is good vowel to say to open the throat?
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