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Yuwei Pan 12/10/2016 From Cage to Glass and beyond Second paper Between the Female Voice and the Machine: Laurie Anderson We recognize and judge people largely according to their voices, whether they are intelligent or dull, sane or insane, female or male, good or evil, friend or enemy. Anne Carson writes that Aristotle found “the highpitched voice of the female is one evidence of her evil disposition, for creatures who are brave or just (like lions, bulls, roosters and the human male) have…

How to Improve Your Tone The Snippet Singers need to have the best tone possible. Fortunately, there are several techniques people can use to improve their tone. These techniques work for novice and advanced singers alike. They are easy to implement and can help people get a better tone right away. The Details Spend time warming up. You will have a hard time having a good tone if your voice isn’t warmed up. Spend ten to twenty minutes warming up before you sing so your vocal cords will be ready…

Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born August 9th, 1963, in Newark, New Jersey. She was the youngest of 3. Her parents are John Houston and Emily "Cissy" Houston. Her mom was a Grammy-award-winning gospel singer and her godmother was Aretha Franklin and her cousins Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick were also singers, as well as her other godmother, Darlene Love so she knew singing and was born for it . At age 11 she started performing in her church’s gospel choir as a soloist and learned to play the piano.…

“Whitney’s Legacy” Imagine, standing on stage, thousands of eyes just on you, the spot light on you, the rush of performing on stage in front of thousands of crazy fans. That’s exactly how Whitney Houston felt, every time she stepped on stage, or was acting in a movie. She is not only a singer, actor, or performer, but she is a legendary artist. Whitney is one of the most recognizable female artists of 2001. She has so many accomplishments, including her songs, movies, and awards. Whitney’s…

The camp is in the Wind River Mountain Range, which is wild and remote. The air is crisp, the sky is huge, and the camp itself is only a few log cabins and tents. We started right in on staff training: practicing our horse-riding, learning how to teach rodeo barrel and pole races, and trying…

Have you ever wondered what the defiance between R&B and Hip Hop is? Or how they may differ? Well I have, yet before I can give you my conclusion I might want to begin by saying Music is a class in association with craftsmanship, also contains various orders inside it. It is a wide subject that interfaces from: Nation, Pop, Gospel, Musical show, Hip-Hop, Rap, Tech, R&B and so on. I am a person who sees the excellence and significance in all music, yet happens to be enthusiastic around two…

Reflection On march 10 in the PAC, at 7:00, I had the opportunity to be able to go and see The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It was a wonderful paly production, with some raunchy scenes, but, it was a very well orchestrated play, with well casted people and had very smooth transitions even though there wasn’t a curtain. The cast was huge, so great was need for voices that they had to hire a local choir to sing with them. The first scene is when you see the choir coming to and sing and take their…

I always enjoyed singing. I sang along to the songs in Disney movies, to the radio in the car, or just at home in my room. I was in choir all year during seventh grade. We sang many songs that year, even one in an African language, but only one song had any solo tryouts. Mrs. Smith picked “Wide Awake” by Katy Perry for us to sing, so we could have at least one modern song. There were three solos in it, I tried out for the first one. The tryouts weren’t in front of the class, but I still had to…

The wind had died down and their spirits were renewed. Even three hours away, the mountain range was still astonishing. It was if the mountains had a mystery, just waiting to be discovered. As the miles counted down, they found themselves deeper and deeper in the Rocky Mountains. The mountains were majestic. Towering mounds of earth with a…

Music, or more specifically lyrical music, is an inseparable part of the average American's lifestyle. It’s in our cars, it’s in the stores we frequent, it’s on our phones, computers, and tablets, it’s in the shows we love and the commercials we love to hate, billions of dollars are made off of streaming services and contracts each year. However, for the majority of American’s, the extent of their own singing exposure is serenading the soap bubbles in the shower or crooning to their favorite…