{"id":1781,"date":"2012-06-02T05:54:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T10:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rockwellblake.com\/blog\/?page_id=1781"},"modified":"2014-11-27T19:24:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T23:24:24","slug":"glottal-closure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/what-is-it-about\/garcias-tool-box\/glottal-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Glottal Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>These two words are terrible <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shorthand\" target=\"_blank\">shorthand<\/a> for a process that Garcia uses ten pages of text to describe. It is on <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=o6PYNM7RNwkC&amp;pg=PA410#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">page 410 of his 1855 <\/a>presentation that he summates the information that we singers need to be most interested in.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Of the Qualities of the Voice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Various simultaneous causes modify the qualities of the voice: 1. according as the glottis <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">partially or entirely<\/span> closes the passage between the explosions, it produces<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> veiled or brilliant<\/span> sounds;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you\u00a0take the time to read the full text from which I extract the above quote, you should come away with a new respect for the larynx.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a title=\"Complete Glottal Closure \u201cCGC\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/what-is-it-about\/garcias-tool-box\/glottal-closure\/complete-glottal-closure-cgc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Complete Glottal Closure<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a title=\"Incomplete Glottal Closure \u201cIGC\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/what-is-it-about\/garcias-tool-box\/glottal-closure\/incomplete-glottal-closure-igc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Incomplete Glottal Closure<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two words are terrible shorthand for a process that Garcia uses ten pages of text to describe. It is on page 410 of his 1855 presentation that he summates the information that we singers need to be most interested in. Of the Qualities of the Voice. Various simultaneous causes modify the qualities of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1275,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-gallery.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1781","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2kj1l-sJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1781\/revisions\/2828"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}