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Ingo Titze's poem was originally published in his classic textbook, Principles of Voice Production. It reflects a time of frustration with the field of voice science in 1980-90 when voice registers were heatedly debated with word definitions, but little science was offered. Definitions of the terms used in the poem are posted on the website of the National Center for Voice and Speech (www.ncvs.org). The title of the poem, Iowa Corn, is inspired by a definition of corn, referring to a story or statement that is laughable, and Iowa (where Dr. Titze is a distinguished professor of voice science), being located in the center of the U.S. cornbelt.

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Education

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• Ingo Titze
• vocal register
• voice science
• Iowa poem

[DrizzitDudden02]

Interesting video, great poem.