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Vocal Training

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music world in that their musical instruments are part of their bodies. This fact poses many problems for the singer, as their "instrument" is subject to the same ebb and  flow of influences that affect the rest of the body (David, 1995). The following examination of singing pedagogy looks briefly at this complicated topic and discusses the differences between the  singing and speaking voice, the importance of vocal hygiene and the consequences of vocal misuse, as well as several techniques that can be utilized by singers to improve their voices.  Singing has been defined as "intensified speech" (Miller, 1983, p. 59). As this suggests the main differences that can be discerned in the use of the voice for speech  and song are that the isochronism of vibration is never prolonged in speech (Durga, 2002). Also, the control of the breath flow is more delicate in singing, as the singer  must frequently sustain a note for a longer period (Durga, 2002). Furthermore, in speech, only one-third of the compass that lies below the center of the complete vocal range is  utilized. On the other hand, when singing, the middle and upper registers, which lie for the most part above the center of the compass are used profusely (Durga, 2002). When  a person is singing, a wide compass of two and a half octaves (or more) are employed, whereas even when a person is speaking to a crowd, the range of  the voice typically extends only up to one and a half octaves (Durga, 2002). One further distinction between speaking and singing voices is that, in speaking, voice inflection adheres  to no fixed scale, but the singing voice does not exist without a scale (Durga, 2002). Miller (2000) discusses how to train to sing vowels properly. In regards to singing