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Or is vocal pedagogy already a part of voice/vocal performance?
@Affliction : well can you be a little be more specific?
Hahaha Mamianka didn't expect to see you again twice - not that I'm complaining or everything LOL! Anyway thank you for your advices and explanation... =)
TO MAMIANKA : THIS IS THE CONTINUATION OF MY ADDITIONAL DETAILS FROM MY SAME QUESTION IN THE CLASSICAL MUSIC SECTION. TO SEE WHAT I WROTE BEFORE, PLEASE REFER TO THAT QUESTION I WAS TALKING ABOUT. THANK YOU.
OKAY, HERE IT GOES...
@Mamianka (8) : ...offer her to see her singing, touching her stomach muscles, observing her facial expressions and gestures etc, all the while explaining everything she needed to know. She said that she trained singing 5 times a week for 6 years which was a rarity so by the time she dipped into the opera world, she already had all the basics she needed and all the hard work paid off. Now the interesting part is that she wrote down how none of her colleagues within her opera company who ALL had their voice degree sounds better than her. They may know the theory, they may cite all the music textbooks in the world about proper singing technique, yet they don't know how to apply it to their own voice. She concluded that they all focus too much on their paper work back in college and finally had very little time to train/study voice properly. I find this really interesting. This piques me to ask this question.
So I was just curious about the education pathway for educators themselves. In
@Mamianka (9) : ...So I was just curious about the education pathway for educators themselves. In this case, vocal educators or vocal pedagogues.
Now that you know the real background as to why I'm asking this question in the first place, I hope you won't get angry at me. I know how you can be pretty critical and harsh sometimes towards people who may ask pointless questions. I've seen your responses in many other questions you've answered (relax, I'm not stalking you LOL). I may not be looking a career as a vocal pedagogue nor am I planning to major in it, but I am not playing nor am I fooling around with this question. I don't consider myself an opera expert because I just discovered this truly wonderful art a few years ago. Heck I've never even watched a full opera live because we don't have opera houses in our country. Most of the knowledge and performances of opera I received is from the internet (thank God for youtube). I do find opera to be a very interesting and highly challen
@Mamianka (10) : ...and highly challenging art that should be treated with such intelligence and poise. I do not only admire the performers who make their name by performing, but also the people BEHIND those performers, mainly their voice teachers (again, I'm talking about voice teachers who absolutely LOVE to teach) who work tirelessly to transfer their knowledge to their pupils, creating and molding these terrific musicians to achieve the best potential they can be while still maintaining their health. Now THAT'S truly something ought to be respected!
p.s. To Mamianka, I'm terribly sorry about the cut off messages. Too bad Yahoo has a strict policy about the maximum number of words that can be posted here thus why I had to chop my additional details into several pieces. I'm sorry it it gives you a headache while reading it LOL. I hope it won't create too much of a confusion for you. Again, thank you very much for even taking a time to read my question/messages and answer them.
@Affliction : well can you be a little be more specific?
Hahaha Mamianka didn't expect to see you again twice - not that I'm complaining or everything LOL! Anyway thank you for your advices and explanation... =)
TO MAMIANKA : THIS IS THE CONTINUATION OF MY ADDITIONAL DETAILS FROM MY SAME QUESTION IN THE CLASSICAL MUSIC SECTION. TO SEE WHAT I WROTE BEFORE, PLEASE REFER TO THAT QUESTION I WAS TALKING ABOUT. THANK YOU.
OKAY, HERE IT GOES...
@Mamianka (8) : ...offer her to see her singing, touching her stomach muscles, observing her facial expressions and gestures etc, all the while explaining everything she needed to know. She said that she trained singing 5 times a week for 6 years which was a rarity so by the time she dipped into the opera world, she already had all the basics she needed and all the hard work paid off. Now the interesting part is that she wrote down how none of her colleagues within her opera company who ALL had their voice degree sounds better than her. They may know the theory, they may cite all the music textbooks in the world about proper singing technique, yet they don't know how to apply it to their own voice. She concluded that they all focus too much on their paper work back in college and finally had very little time to train/study voice properly. I find this really interesting. This piques me to ask this question.
So I was just curious about the education pathway for educators themselves. In
@Mamianka (9) : ...So I was just curious about the education pathway for educators themselves. In this case, vocal educators or vocal pedagogues.
Now that you know the real background as to why I'm asking this question in the first place, I hope you won't get angry at me. I know how you can be pretty critical and harsh sometimes towards people who may ask pointless questions. I've seen your responses in many other questions you've answered (relax, I'm not stalking you LOL). I may not be looking a career as a vocal pedagogue nor am I planning to major in it, but I am not playing nor am I fooling around with this question. I don't consider myself an opera expert because I just discovered this truly wonderful art a few years ago. Heck I've never even watched a full opera live because we don't have opera houses in our country. Most of the knowledge and performances of opera I received is from the internet (thank God for youtube). I do find opera to be a very interesting and highly challen
@Mamianka (10) : ...and highly challenging art that should be treated with such intelligence and poise. I do not only admire the performers who make their name by performing, but also the people BEHIND those performers, mainly their voice teachers (again, I'm talking about voice teachers who absolutely LOVE to teach) who work tirelessly to transfer their knowledge to their pupils, creating and molding these terrific musicians to achieve the best potential they can be while still maintaining their health. Now THAT'S truly something ought to be respected!
p.s. To Mamianka, I'm terribly sorry about the cut off messages. Too bad Yahoo has a strict policy about the maximum number of words that can be posted here thus why I had to chop my additional details into several pieces. I'm sorry it it gives you a headache while reading it LOL. I hope it won't create too much of a confusion for you. Again, thank you very much for even taking a time to read my question/messages and answer them.