Vocal Pedagogy

Vocal Pedagogy is the study of teaching of singing. The art and history of it goes way back to Ancient Greece and has developed to this day.

Professions that practice "vocal pedagogy" are:

• vocal coaches
• choral directors
• vocal music educators
• opera directors
• others who teach singing

One of the concepts of Vocal Pedagogy is the development of proper vocal technique. The typical areas studied for this are:

• human anatomy and physiology
• relates to the physical process of singing
• vocal health and vocal disorders
• related to singing
• proper breathing and air support
• phonation
• vocal resonation/voice projection
• vocal registration
• voice classifaction
• vocal styles
• techniques

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Just a little extra

about performing since I don't know what else to do right now and I'm bored


I started performing when I was seven, so I've been performing for nine years. I don't perform often. Every year I end up having at least three shows/events to perform in. It actually started first with dancing for a school event. But during that time I was enjoying myself with singing at home and learning songs on the karaoke. Haha.

Afterwards, I changed schools and ended up being put in a class with a teacher who loved having her students sing. We performed many times throughout the school year. It shifted to playing the violin the year after.

During it I moved again and ended up having to do a little singing. The year after I sang more for music class and played a little percussion. In sixth grade I sang for music class and danced and did a little of this modeling thing for an association's show I was in.

In high school (technically seventh grade but my school put seventh and eighth graders in the school as well) I was in that show again and joined choir.

Then I moved back to San Diego and was in Correia's choir. That's when my voice started to really develop. Because it was my first day and I didn't want to stand there doing nothing, I forced myself to sing the somewhat high notes as they practiced in class and ended up being pretty good. In Freshmen year I was in PL's choir and joined "Vocal Pointers." Unlike most freshmen, I was put as a Soprano I. Sophmore year I couldn't take choir, but instead ended up singing at football and basketball games and at graduation.

I haven't sang that much since graduation. Not being in any kind of club or organizations that involve performing has been a bummer. Thank goodness I get to sing at home games for Men's Varsity in January.

Alright I'm done talking about myself and bragging about performing and what not. Back to being humble and not being so conceited.

I apologize.

My Choice

'Singing' would be the first thing I think of doing for the expert project. Others have suggested for me to do it, too (no surprise there). This is because they know how much I love to sing. Singing is the only kind of performing that has stuck with me since the beginning of my "performing life". If I'm going to be researching a topic for a whole school year, why not let it be something I love?

I don't have much specifics on what exactly to learn about, but I'd really like to learn about how it originated and the different techniques used for the many genres of singing. I'm mostly hoping to find out more about its history compared to how little I learned in the Career project last year.