Your Body, Your Voice by Theodore Dimon Jr

Author:Theodore Dimon, Jr. [Dimon, EdD, Theodore]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: MUS042000 Music / Instruction & Study / Voice, HEA035000 Health & Fitness / Hearing & Speech, MED005000 Medical / Anatomy
Publisher: North Atlantic Books

The Resonators

We saw earlier that there are three components that make up the human voice: the vibrator, the power source, and the resonator. The flow of breath from the lungs is the power source that sets the vocal folds into motion, and the vocal folds are the vibrators that create sound waves. As we saw, however, without a resonator the vibrations from the vocal folds produce only a weak buzzing sound. It is because these vibrations are augmented in the cavities above the larynx, or vocal tract, that they take on the fully rounded, rich timbre of the human voice.

Two key structures form the resonator of the human voice: the pharynx (or throat) and mouth (fig. 7-1). The pharynx, which is sometimes divided into the nasal, oral, and laryngeal regions, extends from the nasal region, or soft palate, to the larynx, and is of course continuous with the oral cavity extending forward to the lips. When vibrations travel into the body of a guitar or the horn of a trumpet, these cavities provide a space within which the body of air begins to vibrate, acting as a resonator to magnify and round out the sounds produced by the string or trumpeter’s lips (fig. 7-2b). In the human voice, the pharynx and oral cavity serve the same function, amplifying the sounds emanating from the larynx (fig. 7-2a).

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