The document provides instructions and exercises for warming up the voice and developing vocal technique. It discusses warming up the head, throat, nasal cavities, sinus cavities and connecting the voice. Exercises include singing scales and arpeggios of increasing length and complexity. The document emphasizes proper technique and resonance to facilitate deepening connection of the body and mind with universal rhythms and spirituality through music.

1. The
Instrumental
Instrument
Charity Dove
Subject Librarian - Music
Cardiff University

2. Technique?!

3. Just the Basics…
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4. …and practical advice
Good sir! Always keep
your moustache and
internal organs tidy
before you pose for
anatomical illustrations.

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6. Mind and Body

15. So then what…?

16. …Warm ups!

17. Say‘Aaaaahhhh…’
At, last- the Voice!
Resonating Chambers
Hng-N-M: Mee-Mae-Mah-Moe-Moo (1 note)
Dental
Mee(x8) Mae(x8) Mah(x9) (5 note scales)
Nasal
Nee(x4) Nya(x4) Nyah(x5) (3 note arpeggios)
Sinus
Yin(x4) Yang(x4) Yong(x5) (3 note arpeggios)
Connecting
Mee(x4) Mya(x4) (3 note arpeggios); Myah—(x7)
(open chord triad plus octave)
Extending
Myah—(x9) (open chord triad); *pant/tongue stretch*;
Ah—(plus octave & third)

18. How do you get to
Carnegie Hall?

19. “The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who
is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1845

21. “She told him that she loved him.”
…now place the word “only” anywhere in that
sentence…

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24. “The tone of
musical
INSTRUMENTS
and our own
VOICE facilitate
deepening the
RESONANCE of
our body-
mind with the
universal
RHYTHMS and
wholeness of
SPIRIT. ”
~JoEllen Goertz Koerner,
"Quantum
Healing," Healing
Presence: The Essence of
Nursing, 2011 (2nd

25. The
Instrumental
Instrument
Charity Dove
Cardiff University
DoveC@Cardiff.ac.uk

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