- Structure and Function of the Singing Voice
- Voice Dysfunction and Recovery
- The Healthy Voice, Lifestyle, and Voice Protection (including Exercise, Body Work, and Diet)
- Physiology and its Impact on the Performance of Singing
- Breathing in Singing
- The Sound Source in Singing: Basic Principles and Muscular Adjustments for Fine-tuning Vocal Timbre
- The Vocal Tract in Singing
- The Acoustics of Different Genres of Singing
- The Developing Voice
- Perceptual Features in Singing
- The Impact of Location on the Singing Voice
- The Neuroscience of Singing
- Intonation in Singing
- Singing and Emotion
- Perceived Quality of a Singing Performance: The Importance of Context
- Defining and Explaining Singing Difficulties in Adults
- Vocal Performance in Occasional Singers
- Singing as Inter- and Intra-personal Communication
- Digital Libraries for Singing: The Example of the AIRS Project
- Socio-cultural, Acoustic, and Environmental Imperatives in the World of Singing
- Fetal, Neonatal and Early Infant Experiences of Maternal Singing
- Mothers as Singing Mentors for Infants
- Singing and Invented Song-making in Infants' and Young Children’s Early Learning and Development: From Shared to Independent Song-making
- Children Singing: Nurture, Creativity, and Culture. A Study of Children’s Music-Making in London, UK, and in West Bengal, India
- Singing and Vocal Development
- Boys’ Singing Voice Change in Adolescence
- Adolescent Girls’ Singing Development
- The Effects of Gender on the Motivation and Benefits Associated with Community Singing in the UK
- Voice Management and the Older Singer
- Systematic Development of Vocal Technique
- Addressing the needs of the adult “non-singer” (“NS”)
- Teaching the Professional Singer
- Mental Preparation for the Performer
- Conservatory Teaching and Learning
- Pedagogy of Different Sung Genres
- The Extra-normal Voice
- Vocal Music and Pedagogy of Chinese, African, and Indian Genres
- Contemporary Concepts and Practices of Choral Singing
- The Youth Choir
- Cultural History and a Singing Style: “The English Cathedral Tradition”
- Perspectives on Choral Conducting: Theory and Practice
- Group Singing and Social Identity
- Intonation and Staying in Tune in <i>A Cappella</i> Choral Singing
- Choral Singers’ Perceptions of Musical Leadership
- Can Singing have a Beneficial Effect on Lung Function and Breathing for People with Respiratory Illness?
- Singing and Psychological Needs
- The Effects and Benefits of Singing Individually and in a Group
- Unchained Melody: The Rise of Orality and Therapeutic Singing
- Historical Approaches in Revealing the Singing Voice
- Historical Approaches in Revealing the Singing Voice, Part 2
- Ave Verum Pentium: singing, recording, archiving and analyzing within the digital daromain
- Practical Voice Analyses and their Application in the Studio
- Future Perspectives
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter reviews several studies of singing in different styles. The studies reveal that the differences concern all the main dimensions of phonation: F0, loudness, phonation type, and formant frequencies. Most vocal styles differ substantially from normal speech, though in quite different ways. A difficulty in describing the characteristics of the styles of singing typical of different musical genres is that the same term does not always mean the same to all experts. Some diverging results in voice research on styles of singing may perhaps emerge from such terminological issues. The author suggests that descriptions of different styles of singing should be related to objective findings on the overall phonatory and articulatory potentials of the voice.
Keywords: phonation, formant frequencies, musical genres, voice research
Johan Sundberg had a personal chair in Music Acoustics at the department from 1979 to his retirement 2001. Since 2002 he is Visiting Professor at the University of London, UK.
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- Structure and Function of the Singing Voice
- Voice Dysfunction and Recovery
- The Healthy Voice, Lifestyle, and Voice Protection (including Exercise, Body Work, and Diet)
- Physiology and its Impact on the Performance of Singing
- Breathing in Singing
- The Sound Source in Singing: Basic Principles and Muscular Adjustments for Fine-tuning Vocal Timbre
- The Vocal Tract in Singing
- The Acoustics of Different Genres of Singing
- The Developing Voice
- Perceptual Features in Singing
- The Impact of Location on the Singing Voice
- The Neuroscience of Singing
- Intonation in Singing
- Singing and Emotion
- Perceived Quality of a Singing Performance: The Importance of Context
- Defining and Explaining Singing Difficulties in Adults
- Vocal Performance in Occasional Singers
- Singing as Inter- and Intra-personal Communication
- Digital Libraries for Singing: The Example of the AIRS Project
- Socio-cultural, Acoustic, and Environmental Imperatives in the World of Singing
- Fetal, Neonatal and Early Infant Experiences of Maternal Singing
- Mothers as Singing Mentors for Infants
- Singing and Invented Song-making in Infants' and Young Children’s Early Learning and Development: From Shared to Independent Song-making
- Children Singing: Nurture, Creativity, and Culture. A Study of Children’s Music-Making in London, UK, and in West Bengal, India
- Singing and Vocal Development
- Boys’ Singing Voice Change in Adolescence
- Adolescent Girls’ Singing Development
- The Effects of Gender on the Motivation and Benefits Associated with Community Singing in the UK
- Voice Management and the Older Singer
- Systematic Development of Vocal Technique
- Addressing the needs of the adult “non-singer” (“NS”)
- Teaching the Professional Singer
- Mental Preparation for the Performer
- Conservatory Teaching and Learning
- Pedagogy of Different Sung Genres
- The Extra-normal Voice
- Vocal Music and Pedagogy of Chinese, African, and Indian Genres
- Contemporary Concepts and Practices of Choral Singing
- The Youth Choir
- Cultural History and a Singing Style: “The English Cathedral Tradition”
- Perspectives on Choral Conducting: Theory and Practice
- Group Singing and Social Identity
- Intonation and Staying in Tune in <i>A Cappella</i> Choral Singing
- Choral Singers’ Perceptions of Musical Leadership
- Can Singing have a Beneficial Effect on Lung Function and Breathing for People with Respiratory Illness?
- Singing and Psychological Needs
- The Effects and Benefits of Singing Individually and in a Group
- Unchained Melody: The Rise of Orality and Therapeutic Singing
- Historical Approaches in Revealing the Singing Voice
- Historical Approaches in Revealing the Singing Voice, Part 2
- Ave Verum Pentium: singing, recording, archiving and analyzing within the digital daromain
- Practical Voice Analyses and their Application in the Studio
- Future Perspectives
