The Disney Trip

For the past two days, Herricks High School's Music Program was invited to Disney to perform and we were able to work with Disney's clinicians after the performance. One of the more valuable things I learned from this workshop was voice analysis. The clinician had the choir listen to several songs from musicals to analyze what type of character the singer was. We analyzed the choices the singer made to personalize the role. For example; how enunciated/pronounced a person's constants would indicate the high confidence of the character, most likely the character's arrogance. The dynamic variations of the character, without paying attention to the lyrics, can tell us what the character is going through. How lightly or how shrilly a character sings indicates a character's personality as well. This workshop taught me how much I can get out of just the vocal of a song. Without seeing the acting or blocking, you can get a fairly accurate assumption of the character singing the song and a fairly accurate assumption of what the character is going through.