Theatre+for+the+Ears

__Audibility__ – the ability to be heard __Choreography__ – planned dance movements __Clarity__ – the quality of being easy to understand __Confidence__ – the belief in one’s self; in performance, confidence is “fearlessness” __Dialect__ – a regional accent __Habits__ – distracting tendencies that can be corrected with practice such as shifting weight nervously or saying “um” as a filler word __Inflection__ – a change in the pitch of one’s voice __Old Time Radio__ – the term used to describe radio from its beginnings to the age of television (when radio was replaced by TV as the center of family entertainment) __Pitch__ – how high or low one’s voice is heard __Pre-Recorded Sound Cues__ – Sound cues played from CD’s, tapes, or records __Rate__ – how fast or slow one speaks __Selling the Performance__ – the ability to fully engage the audience in the performance __Sound Effects__ – audio created to enhance a performance or used to indicate a bit of action (such as the sound of footsteps to indicate a person is walking) __Tone__ – the sound of one’s voice