Our Multimedia Learning Platform

We offer a proprietary multimedia system of learning that integrates textbooks, interactive Listening Labs, and animated videos to enhance learning by stimulating multiple senses - visual, auditory, vocal/kinesthetic - which, when combined, enhances students’ learning.

General Information on Multimedia Learning

General information about the benefits of multimedia learning, and how our textbooks, Listening Labs, and animated videos integrate to provide a rich teaching and learning experience is provided in the links below.

• Overview of Diction Multimedia Platform
• Independent Doctoral Dissertation on Diction Teaching Texts
• Why Multimedia?
• Overview of the Pedagogy Multimedia Platform
• Organization of the Pedagogy Multimedia Platform
• Reviews From Across the Multimedia Platform

Look Inside

For specific examples on how our textbooks, Listening Labs, and videos work together, click on the below links.

Our materials are extensive and robust; these examples are a very small selection depicting our integrated "mix 'n match" materials - exclusively available from Laurenz Publishing - which enrich the teaching and learning process.

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Diction

The Diction for Singers textbook integrates with the online Listening Labs.

• Sample: reference pronunciation chart from Diction for Singers
• Sample: excerpts showing the integration between the Diction for Singers textbook and the online Listening Labs

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Vocal Pedagogy

Teachings from the Mastering the Fundamentals textbook are enhanced in the 3D video The Human Voice.

• Sample: Chapter 8, “Breath” (from Mastering the Fundamentals textbook)
• Sample: Video clip of “sound at the vocal folds” (from The Human Voice video)
• Sample: Video clip of “formants” (from The Human Voice)

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The Resonance and Human Voice videos work in tandem with one another to help students understand the whole, integrated vocal system - laying a complete visual foundation for advanced vocal pedagogy. Accompanying textbook learning is available in Beginning the Process and Mastering the Fundamentals.

• Sample: the differences in the voice's registers (timbre) are highlighted in this film, see the sample clip of “formants” from the film The Human Voice. View sample clip
• Sample: accompanying text is available in Beginning the Process, the section "The air inside the body" beginning on page 209.
• Sample: further essays and pragmatic applications of the ideas in this film are available in Mastering the Fundamentals in the section "Teaching and Learning Flexible Resonance" beginning on page 191. Read excerpt

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The Singer’s Voice: Breath video will help you deliver the core concepts of breath support to your students rapidly and effectively. Integrated learning materials are available as follows:

• Sample: for the accompanying text, see Beginning the Process, the section "The body: The vocal instrument," and the subsection, "Breath" beginning on page 157.
• Sample: for further essays and pragmatic applications of the ideas in this film, see Mastering the Fundamentals and the section "Teaching and Learning Flexible Breath" beginning on page 47.
• Sample: for further expansion of how the ideas in this film lead to differences in the sound's dynamic level (amplitude), see the clip on sound at the vocal folds (from The Human Voice).

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In the same style as Breath, the simplicity of Singer’s Voice: Vocal Folds animations will help you deliver to your students rapidly and effectively the core interplay between the anatomy and aerodynamics within the larynx to produce sound. Integrated learning materials are available as follows:

• Sample: for the accompanying text, see Beginning the Process, the section "The body: The vocal instrument," and the subsection, "Phonation" beginning on page 166.
• Sample: for further essays and pragmatic applications of the ideas in this film, see Mastering the Fundamentals and the section "Teaching and Learning Flow Phonation" beginning on page 109.
• Sample: for further expansion of how the ideas in this film lead to differences in sound (registers), see the clip on sound at the vocal folds (from The Human Voice).