Question

1. What does the singer have to do with their larynx to create different tones (be specific)?

2. What muscular adjustments would the singer have to make between singing in a small room compared with a large concert hall without a microphone?

3. How would a head or chest cold affect the vocal performance and why?

4. How does the larynx serve as a musical instrument?

5. In what ways can this musical instrument be destroyed

Answer 1

While singing several actions takes palce in the larynx, we will move the toung, make several changes in lip movement, and increase the larynx slightly for creating high pitches, shrink the larynx for creating low pitches. Singer will make changes in the muscles of vocal folds, larynx, breath intake while singing. Singing in a small room require only less voice, so singer will make slighter changes in muscles of larynx and voice fold, than singing in a large hall. Head or chest cold can make swellings in vocal folds, so the singer cannot make changes in pitch while singing. Larynx can produce several voice, a lower pitched sounds can be produced by applying little force on larynx, similar to sound of guitar. Producing louder voice, when we have cold, smoking, etc will destroy our larynx.