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I'm glad my husband is out for his early morning coffee. He would have thought I'd lost my mind if he'd heard me vocalizing the crescendo exercise!

I'm finding that with each degree of loudness my tone wants to raise in pitch. Did Helen have you try to speak or sing at one tone throughout the crescendo, or go up the scale as the intensity increased? It's interesting to work it both ways though it takes a great deal more concentration & effort, for me, to stay on one note. WJ

Actually, it was kind of a "sprechstimme" thing, we did it in a speaking voice. Doing it on a pitch and up a scale is a nice idea, though I think she was trying to isolate it from pitch in order to give them a feeling for the gradations of volume. I did it for some friends later in the day, and I think I scared them!