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154690 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.38752 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ All Rights Reserved 2016 ix, 109 pages : illustrations (some color) Doctoral Dissertation Academic theses Text eng Lemoine, Ryan Cole Gardner, Joshua T Creviston, Christopher Feisst, Sabine Spring, Robert Arizona State University Partial requirement for: D.M.A., Arizona State University, 2016 Inclues bibliographical references (pages 41-42) Field of study: Music Voicing, as it pertains to saxophone pedagogy, presents certain obstacles to both teachers and students simply because we cannot visually assess the internal mechanics of the vocal tract. The teacher is then left to instruct based on subjective “feel” which can lead to conflicting instruction, and in some cases, misinformation. In an effort to expand the understanding and pedagogical resources available, ten subjects—comprised of graduate-level and professional-level saxophonists—performed varied pitch bend tasks while their tongue motion was imaged ultrasonographically and recorded. Tongue range of motion was measured from midsagittal tongue contours extracted from the ultrasound data using a superimposed polar grid. The results indicate variations in how saxophonists shape their tongues in order to produce pitch bends from F6. Music Pedagogy performing arts Oral Physiology Pitch Bends Saxophone Ultrasound Imaging Voicing Ultrasonic imaging Saxophone--Performance. Saxophone Throat--Physiology. Throat An ultrasonographic observation of saxophonists' tongue positions while producing front F pitch bends