SOUND SOURCES
- The Human Body and Voice
- Traditional and Non-Traditional Instruments
- Electronically Generated
1. Human Body and Voice
A. Voice:
Ways of using the voice: singing, humming, whistling, mouth pooping, speaking, chanting, tongue clicking, rhythmic breathing, grunting, beat-boxing, rapping, etc
4 Main Categories of Human Voice
Women Soprano
Alto
Men Tenor
Bass
Shortened to SATB.
B. Body Percussion: the art of utilizing the human body to create sounds and rhythms.
Body percussion techniques: clapping, thigh-slapping (patsch), finger-clicking, top tapping, chest thumping, stomping, high fives, stepping, hand 'warming', etc.
2. Traditional and Non-Traditional Instruments:
A. Traditional instruments: may be classified in a number of ways. We will focus on orchestral families
Orchestral families
- Stings
- Woodwinds
- Brass
- Percussion
Two (2) other families are the Keyboards and Electronic.
B. Non-Traditional instruments: home made instruments, folk instruments etc.
Examples of non-traditional instruments include:
pot and spoon, desk top, water xylophone, grater, bagpipe, banjo, cuatro, djembe, fiddle, guitar, lute, pan flute, sitar, steelpan, etc.
3. Electronically Generated Sounds/Instruments
Produced by synthesizers, samplers, keyboards, drum-machines, computers - MIDI, electronic guitar, electronic drum, drum machine, etc.
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