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    This document discusses organizing choirs based on vocal color or "voiceprint". It describes three primary vocal colors - bright, warm, and lyric - and suggests placing singers in sections or arrangements according to their color. The goal is to create "listening spheres" where singers can use their natural instruments and focus on listening, rather than blending. Bright voices are placed in the back and middle, warm voices provide the core, and lyric voices are in the front. Gender and other considerations are also discussed.

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    This document discusses organizing choirs based on vocal color or "voiceprint". It describes three primary vocal colors - bright, warm, and lyric - and suggests placing singers in sections or arrangements according to their color. The goal is to create "listening spheres" where singers can use their natural instruments and focus on listening, rather than blending. Bright voices are placed in the back and middle, warm voices provide the core, and lyric voices are in the front. Gender and other considerations are also discussed.

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    Celebrating Voiceprints

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    This document discusses organizing choirs based on vocal color or "voiceprint". It describes three primary vocal colors - bright, warm, and lyric - and suggests placing singers in sections or arrangements according to their color. The goal is to create "listening spheres" where singers can use their natural instruments and focus on listening, rather than blending. Bright voices are placed in the back and middle, warm voices provide the core, and lyric voices are in the front. Gender and other considerations are also discussed.

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    Celebrating Voiceprints!

    Sandra Snow, Ph.D.!


    Michigan State University!
    slsnow@msu.edu!
    Voiceprints!

     Vocal color + personal expression=!


    ! ! !Unique voiceprint!

     Role of conductor/teacher involves


    voice-building!
    ! !(ssshhh…..weʼre voice teachers)!
    The color palette!

     Primary continuum of vocal color:!


     bright.forward resonance….ping in sound!
    !often larger instrument!
     warm..vital…different sizes…easy negotiation
    of passagi…rich middle!
     lyric..flute-like…usually smaller…easy
    top..little weight on bottom!
     Mixed colors!
    The evil twins:!

     Bright=strident; harsh; difficult


    passagi;breaks or gaps in vocalization!
    !hide or asked not to sing…!
     Warm=swallowed; unresonated or
    placed; flat; hide in alto or bass section!!
     Lyric=unsupported; little energy in
    articulators; balloon-esque sharping!
    Standing order !

     Basic premise: organize singers around


    resonance. Brights go back and middle of
    sections. Brights must be listened to for
    friendly oscillation. !
     Warms provide core and often soften brights.
    Warms are chameleons. We like warmth and
    not just in the north.!
     Lyrics provide the beautiful roundness, a
    circle, in which warms oscillate. Brights take
    lyric circles and organize them.!
    Imagination and experimentation!

     Singers know intuitively where NOT to


    stand!
     Singers are the best source of
    information!
     Singers develop the ability to self-select!
     Friends donʼt count.!
    Step One: Line ʻem up!

     Self select bright to dark!


    Procedure!

     Describe the following and have students self-


    select:!
     Brights organize first; back and middle!
    Sirens get dibs!!
    Warms with more weight and color to middle of
    sections. Warms with less weight anywhere
    but ends of rows!
    Flutes/lyrics to front and ends (if independent)!
    Listening Spheres!

     Created when singers can use natural


    instrument!
     When listening is the focus: not blend!
     Spheres aided by attention to acoustics
    and basic rules of harmonic structure!
     Try mixed spheres!
    Mixed gender choirs!

     Basses: Back and center!


     Tenors: inverted “pie” wedge!
     S/A: mixed, keeping earlier principles!
    Other considerations!

     Try a variety of standing orders on a single


    concert: music dictates mixed, sections,
    scrambled, etc…!
     Try using full stage: not only risers!
     Stand with space between singers whenever
    possible!
     Drive your friends crazy with your astounding
    powers!!
    Learning your singers!

     Audition process: categorize based on


    color in addition to traditional measures!
     Use passagi as criterion for section
    placement over range!
     With developing choirs, consider equal
    distributions of color!

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