American Singer Canary Song Vocabulary Worksheet
by ASCC
Accelerated Phrase
A
verbal or written description of all the elements contained in a specific song.
Analysis
A
verbal or written description of all the elements contained in a specific song.
Asymmetrical (uneven) Throat Expansion
When only one side of the singer's throat is expanded while singing he exhibits asymmetrical throat expansion.
Aviary Smog
If an American Singer aviary or bird room has too many males in it, singing all at the same time can be considered a serious liability to song development in those singers in the learning stage of song just too much "noise". (too much, too many = an unfixed number dependent on the aviary size, acoustics, number of singing males, and the francier's opinion on what is optimum.
Baby Song
(immature, undeveloped, underdeveloped song) A singer who is still developing his song, being a young, first year bird. Baby song is characteristically: short, quiet, garbled, and undefined. On rare occasions a singer does not progress beyond the baby song stage.
Balance
A
song has balance when it has a pleasing number of open beak and closed beak phrases, having neither too many open beak phrases nor too many closed beak phrases.
Barnyard Medley
This term applies to phrases that sound like the noises, voices or calls of barnyard (farm), animals, such as: duck quacking, donkey or mule braying, pig oinking, hen clucking, etc.
Bass Roll
A
phrase sung: on the syllable 'knor,r,r,r,…', in the low range, at an extremely fast tempo (20+ beats/second), at a quiet volume, and at a muted tone.
Bell Phrase
An open beak phrase sung: commonly on the syllables 'tee', 'tie', 'dee', and 'die', in e high range, at a fast tempo (12-20 syllables/second), at a loud volume, and clearly.
Bent Phrase
When a singer, all within a single phrase, starts at one pitch and either gradually raises or lowers the pitch of the phrase, returning at the end of the phrase to the starting pitch or near it, he has sung a bent phrase.
Blending
In a singer who sounds very much like other bird(s) in the same class while being judged will blend in with the other similar sounding singers and consequently his song will be obscured by the songs of the others.
Cardinal Phrase
An open bead phrase reminiscent in sound to the 'cardinal's cheer' phrase, ex:.: 'dieu, dieu, dieu…', or 'cheer, cheer, cheer…'.
Chung Tour
Closed-beak phrase built on the syllable 'chung' sung: in the low range, at a slow-medium tempo (2-4 syllables/second), at a medium-quiet volume, and at a muted tone. Waterslager outcrossings are suspect in birds that sing the 'Chung Tour;
Chop Phrase
An open beak phrase sung: on the syllable 'chop;, at medium to high pitch, slowly (2-6 syllables. Second), loudly, and clearly.
Closed Beak Phrases (Roller
influence)
Bass roll, hollow roll, hollow bell roll, gluck roll, water roll, flute tour*, gluck tour, water tour and schockel tour are sung with the beak closed or mostly closed and are closed beak phrases. (*flute tours sung in low pitch are sung with a closed or nearly closed beak)
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