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Re: Breathing

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-09-04 04:53

Back in the days when a teacher's touching a student wasn't an invitation to a lawsuit, Anthony Gigliotti had a very simple way of illustrating what he considered essential breathing technique. With the student standing, he put his fist against the student's abdomen and told the student to push his fist out with the abdominal muscles. He also reversed roles and had the student press into his "stomach" to feel how powerfully his abdominals expanded. I don't remember much if any discussion of the diaphragm or any of the specific muscles that were involved. Just powerful expansion.

The other half of the demonstration had to do with maintaining the expansion as long as possible. The student took a large, powerful breath as above, then read something in a normal voice that was on the music stand for the purpose - a bit of text in Klose or the Declaration on Independence or whatever was around. The goal was to read as long as possible without losing the expansion or tightening the throat, keeping the voice steady. The effect was both to increase breath span and to actually increase the resonance of the student's voice.

All the while there was little if any concern, as much as I remember, for *how* any of this was to be done but, instead *what* was to be done and how it *felt.*

Karl

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