Name: Charles Moe
Competency: B6
Artifact Title: Vocal Ranges pages 1 and 2
Artifact Type: Several charts displaying the various vocal ranges of male, females, and children.
Rationale for Inclusion: Competency B6 states that a teacher of vocal music must demonstrate understandings and skills of vocal performance pedagogy and vocal health, including the child voice and the changing voice. The charts I have included here display the various ranges of people at different levels of maturity. The first chart we see shows the range of the child voice. The second chart shows the vocal ranges for students at the middle school level. Here we see the "Cambiata," also known as the "changing" voice. As we can see, as singers advance in age the ranges typically expand. For example we see a big difference in males between middle school age and high school age. In middle school, males are classified typically as Cambiata (these voices are still quite high but may develop into tenors or basses), or Baritones. The Baritone voices have already matured to a certain degree and may either stay fairly close to where they are, or they may continue to descend in pitch, thus creating Basses. At the high school level the changing voice starts to settle (although there may still be some minor changes as the voice matures further) and the four major parts begin to fully come to fruition. These parts are Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass. However although these are the only ranges listed under "high school level," we do start to see division within the parts. These divisions can be seen under the chart labeled, "Mature Adult Voices." Now we see that each part gets split into two parts, the higher of the two being labeled with "I" and the lower of the two being labeled with "II." This is not a ranking of any kind but rather simply a classification of range. The high Bass part is also given the name "Baritone."
