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Let's analyze the voice of the child from my point of view
If we think about the debut of Shirley Temple, the first little girl to appear on the big screen. The Temple began her career on TV in 1931, at the age of only 3 years. Better known as "Golden Riccioli", the American actress went to the history of cinema for interpreting sweet and lezing girls, in addition to the ability to dance the Tip-Tap. At the age of six he won the youth Oscar. Times are evolving as the vocal models to follow. They protagonists the television talent as "I leave you a song" or before that they are still "good very good" which unfortunately unlike the golden Zecchino, which was born in 1953, have the only goal the television odience and the share of listening to the muddying of the dangerous phenomenon that are moving around children: notoriety !!!
The child's voice says much more than what you listen to, for this reason, it would be reductive to believe that the "cantantine" problems refer only to the type of voice and its use. I firmly believe that there are aspects of non -verbal communication of small singers who develop damage within the personality: protagonism at all costs, television shots, commitments. Where do we impact that all this has on the child's personality?
Another aspect not to be underestimated is the psychological impact that the change of the child's voice has ... .. on the adult future…. Here is the moment of the vocal wetsuit.
I want to sing how birds sing without worrying about those who listen to or what you think.
(Rumi )
In this phase, which coincides with sexual maturation both for females and for males, there are important vocal changes, the female voices are listening to the veiled and at least one or two octaves are descended, the male voices, on the other hand, become more dark and "Rauche." The difference between the two sexes is due to the fact that the human organs react particularly to testosterone stresses due to hormonal influences increase the size of the larynx; The walls of cartilaginous tissue will be unexpected and the Adam's pommels emerge on the surface, while the vocal cords are lengthened and thickened. The change is caused, albeit indirectly, by the development of the genital organs that produce testosterone.
These modifications take place in the period that from puberty we arrive at adolescence: psychological process that ends with the achievement of adulthood, that's why it becomes of primary importance from the parents to be close to the child now almost adult. Pre -adolescence and adolescence are periods of human life particularly rich in conflicting situations and tension states.
Conflicts are not only biological, but depend, also on the social and cultural conditions of the environment, on the experiences that has had the opportunity to carry out, from the state of the knowledge acquired. The situation is difficult but not impossible to manage. With due caution, the voice of the child and in general the voice can face any profession even the most tiring but we must know how to supervise ... .. and choose when to stop and how it is necessary and start again: basically in children lies the future of the world.
When you hear a boy who sings, stop and listen, because a heart that hates has no songs.
(Mikis Theodorakis)
Bigliography:
When Mozart was a child (Sigrid Laube) ed. Blacksmiths
The little girl who had lost her rumor (Fernanda Calati - Allegra Agliardi) Ed.Cuci Young
The voice is a children's play (Paola Cadonici) fiction Arakne
The child and his voice (Silvia Magnani) ed. Franco Angeli
Read also the article: what does artistic speech therapy means and how does it differ from traditional speech therapy?
