Balance In Singing

Balance in singing refers to a highly coordination of the singer’s physiological and psychological state simultaneously. Namely, the body’s vocal organs and related muscles are required to achieve a high degree of coordination in singing and also the singer’s artistic expression and his or her works are required to achieve a relatively balanced state of singing.The overall balance in singing is to coordinate and manage the various important factors while singing, ultimately to form an overall singing state and achieve a perfect artistic expression.Singing balance is the ultimate goal of scientific skill training of singing, and also is the only way to achieve perfect singing. The importance of overall singing balance is its integrity. That is, the singing is an overall and coordinated movement, and it can not be completed if lacks any part. Meanwhile, the various factors inside singing are independent, but mutually restrained and balanced. To master the overall balance of singing is to master the integrity of singing, and is to organically integrate the various factors of singing to complete singing jointly by mutual restraint and cooperation of the factors.Singing is a discipline with strong practice. And, a simple study on singing theory or simple practice of singing, are unable to complete the actual research of this discipline. Theory comes from practice, guides and contributes to the practice. Both the theory and practice are complementary and indispensable. The essence of singing is to express,and the purpose is to express the content and meaning of the work itself.In singing, we are supposed to seize the principal contradiction from various contradictions, find a balance in the confrontation, and view the various factors in singing from the dialectical perspective, to establish anoverall singing concept, and ultimately achieve the perfect singing.Balanced, unified and coordinated voice is definitely the beautiful and touching singing.This paper summarizes the balance of singing in the first chapter,and details the meaning of the balance of singing. Also, in the first chapter, this paper lists the reflection to balanced singing in the ancient Chinese music literature, and finally discussesed the significance to study balance of singing; the second chapter describes the various factors in singing, which are: singing physiology, singing psychology and singing artistic expression; the third chapter grasps the overall balance of singing,and proposes the practical ways to achieve overall balance of singing; in the fourth chapter, the paper analyzes the application of singing balance in the actual singing by taking the examples of a Chinese opera excerpt“Clear Water and Blue Sky” and the Tibetan folk song “Drinking Song”.This paper takes scientific theories as the foundation, and also uses different vocal music works as examples to make case analysis, exactly achieving that “theory comes from practice and guides practice.”...