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An Ultrasonographic Observation of Saxophonists’ Tongue Positions While Producing Front F Pitch Bends

abstract: Voicing, as it pertains to saxophone pedagogy, presents certain obstacles to both teachers and students simply because we cannot visually assess the internal mechanics of the vocal tract. The teacher is then left to instruct based on subjective “feel” which can lead to conflicting instruction, and in some cases, misinformation. In an effort to expand the understanding and pedagogical resources available, ten subjects—comprised of graduate-level and professional-level saxophonists—performed varied pitch bend tasks while their tongue motion was imaged ultrasonographically and recorded. Tongue range of motion was measured from midsagittal tongue contours extracted from the ultrasound data using a superimposed polar grid. The results indicate variations in how saxophonists shape their tongues in order to produce pitch bends from F6. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2016

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:38752
Date January 2016
ContributorsLemoine, Ryan Cole (Author), Gardner, Joshua T (Advisor), Creviston, Christopher (Advisor), Feisst, Sabine (Committee member), Spring, Robert (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDoctoral Dissertation
Format120 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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