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Throat Movement and Voicing

Author: crvsp
Date: 2021-01-23 21:52

Hi all,
This thought came up to me when I was practicing large slurred intervals (i.e altissimo G to clarion G). My teacher had always put emphasis on having no visible movement of the throat when I was playing, but that was when I was still a beginner and working on articulation, so I was thinking it might've been to emphasize small tongue movement rather than voicing movement.

And so my main thought is if throat movement that is made in order to change voicing for large intervals something that is good? I think a good example of this would be Nicholas Baldeyrou; I notice that over large intervals he does have some of this movement.

I experimented a little and dramatically changing my voicing allowed me to connect intervals a little smoother, but at the "price" of having visible throat movement. Any thoughts on this matter?

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