The wonderful tongue!  A muscle articulated in so many ways that voice teachers can't even tell their students what they should do with it.  We have to speak in pre-sets, that is to say we have to talk about vowels.  "Sing a brighter ah."  "Add some oo to your ee."  Or the eternally popular, "Sing pure Italian vowels", whatever that might mean to a particular voice teacher.  All of these instructions are intended to help students find a resonant sound and hang on to it though entire songs.

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