Sing!

• In order to be a well-equipped voice pedagogue today it is important to provide a wide set of skills. In work with children, adolescents, and adult amateurs, it can be essential to be familiar with different genres and music from different cultures; some students want to sing jazz and pop, and others prefer musical theatre or classical singing. Also, in work with advanced students and professionals it is important to have access to different tools in order to efficiently work with an incremental vocal and musical progression. Sometimes it is fruitful to work with classical exercises for a pop singer, and occasionally also the opposite. An alert and active body is necessary to enable embodied singing and therefore, the relation voice-movement is crucial. Some singers need to work to find a good postural alignment and access to the body as a framework, others have to pay attention to unnecessary tensions, rigidity and lack of flow, while others need to find more energy and activity. Besides from creating the prerequisites for good singing some easy movements might helpful to gather a group in a good way. Sometimes it is a gap between the warming-up exercises we do and the songs we sing. Occasionally, we get bored of traditional scales, triads or other exercises we have done for years. So, in this workshop I shall introduce some of my songs and exercises that I have composed - exercises for solo, ensemble and choir. These exercises can be considered as: a bridge between more traditional exercises and the repertoire at hand, a way of getting started, a way of focus on listening, a way of connecting body and voice or just a way of challenge the singers with new things in a joyful way. The exercises could be regarded as a complement to the more traditional warming up exercises. During this session we will work with; Scandinavian folklore, rap, beat-boxing, Middle East and Asian inspired exercises, tongue-twisters, classic singing, pop, body percussion and rounds. So, come and Sing!

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Musik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Music (hsv//eng)

Keyword

voicepedagogy

singing

rap

beatbox

body percussion

classical singing

embodied singing

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

kon (subject category)