Singing has been a characteristic behaviour of humanity across several millennia. Chorus America (2009) estimated that 42.6 million adults and children regularly sing in one of 270,000 choruses in the US, representing more than 1:5 households. Similarly, recent European-based data suggest that more than 37 million adults take part in group singing.The Oxford Handbook of Singing is a landmark text on this topic. It is a comprehensive resource
for anyone who wishes to know more about the pluralistic nature of singing. In part, the narrative adopts a lifespan approach, pre-cradle to senescence, to illustrate that singing is a commonplace
behaviour which is an essential characteristic of our humanity.In the overall design of the Handbook, the chapter contents have been clustered into eight main sections, embracing fifty-three chapters by seventy-two authors, drawn from across the world, with each chapter illustrating and illuminating a particular aspect of singing. Offering a multi-disciplinary perspective embracing the arts and humanities, physical, social and clinical sciences, the book will be valuable
for a broad audience within those fields.
Singing has been a characteristic behaviour of humanity across several millennia. Chorus America (2009) estimated that 42.6 million adults and children regularly sing in one of 270,000 choruses in the US, representing more than 1:5 households. Similarly, recent European-based data suggest that more than 37 million adults take part in group singing.The Oxford Handbook of Singing is a landmark text on this topic. It is a comprehensive resource
for anyone who wishes to know more about the pluralistic nature of singing. In part, the narrative adopts a lifespan approach, pre-cradle to senescence, to illustrate that singing is a commonplace
behaviour which is an essential characteristic of our humanity.In the overall design of the Handbook, the chapter contents have been clustered into eight main sections, embracing fifty-three chapters by seventy-two authors, drawn from across the world, with each chapter illustrating and illuminating a particular aspect of singing. Offering a multi-disciplinary perspective embracing the arts and humanities, physical, social and clinical sciences, the book will be valuable
for a broad audience within those fields.
PART 1: The Anatomy and Physiology of Singing
1: Gillyanne Kayes: Structure and Function of the Singing Voice
2: Tara K Stadelman-Cohen and Robert E Hillman: Voice Dysfunction
and Recovery
3: John S Rubin and Ruth Epstein: The Healthy Voice, Lifestyle and
Voice Protection (including Exercise, Body Work and Diet)
4: Filipa M B Lã and Brian P Gill: Physiology and its Impact on the
Performance of Singing
PART 2: The Acoustics of Singing
5: Alan Watson: Breathing in Singing
6: Christian T Herbst, David M Howard and Jan G Svec: The Sound
Source in Singing: Basic Principles and Muscular Adjustments for
Fine-tuning Vocal Timbre
7: Brad Story: The Vocal Tract in Singing
8: Johan Sundberg: The Acoustics of Different Genres of Singing
9: Desmond Sergeant: The Developing Voice
10: David M Howard and Eric J Hunter: Perceptual Features of
Singing
11: Harald Jers: The Impact of Location on the Singing Voice
PART 3: The Psychology of Singing
12: Boris A Kleber and Jean Mary Zarate: The Neuroscience of
Singing
13: Johan Sundberg: Intonation in Singing
14: Eduardo Coutinho, Klaus R Scherer and Nicola Dibben: Singing
and Emotion
15: Evangelos Himonides: Perceived Quality of a Singing
Performance: The Importance of Context
16: Karen Wise: Defining and Explaining Singing Difficulties in
Adults
17: Simone Dalla Bella: Vocal Performance in Occasional Singers
18: Graham F Welch and Costanza Preti: Singing as Inter- and
Intra-personal Communication
19: Annabel J Cohen and Karen M Ludke: Digital Libraries for
Singing: The Example of the AIRS Project
PART 4: The Development of Singing across the Lifespan
20: Robert Walker: Socio-cultural, Acoustic, and Environmental
Imperatives in the World of Singing
21: Sheila C Woodward: Fetal, Neonatal and Early Infant Experiences
of Maternal Singing
22: Sandra E Trehub and Helga Rut Gudmundsdottir: Mothers as
Singing Mentors for Infants
23: Margaret S Barrett: Singing and Invented Song-making in Infants
and Young Children's Early Learning and Development: from Shared to
Independent Song-making
24: Valentine Harding: Children Singing: Nurture, Creativity, and
Culture. A Study of Children's Music-making in London, UK, and in
West Bengal, India
25: Graham F Welch: Singing and Vocal Development
26: Jenevora Williams and Scott Harrison: Boys' Singing Voice
Change in Adolescence
27: Lynne Gackle: Adolescent Girls' Singing Development
28: Diana Parkinson: The Effects of Gender on the Motivation and
Benefits Associated with Community Singing in the UK
29: Jane Davidson and Lynne Murray: Voice Management and the Older
Singer
PART 5: Singing Pedagogy
30: John Nix: Systematic Development of Vocal Technique
31: Susan Knight: Addressing the Needs of the Adult "Non-Singer"
("NS")
32: Jean Callaghan: Teaching the Professional Singer
33: Alma Thomas: Mental Preparation for the Performer
34: Mary King and John Nix: Conservatory Teaching and Learning
35: Jeremy Fisher, Gillyanne Kayes and Lisa Popeil: Pedagogy of
Different Sung Genres
36: Michael Edward Edgerton: The Extra-normal Voice
37: Yang Yang, Aaron Carter-Enyi, Nandhu Radhakrishnan, Sophie
Grimmer, and John Nix: Vocal Music and Pedagogy of Chinese, African
and Indian Genres
PART 6: The Collective 'Choral' Voice
38: Ursula Geisler and Karin Johansson: Contemporary Concepts and
Practices of Choral Singing
39: Joy Hill: The Youth Choir
40: Timothy Day: Cultural History and a Singing Style: "The English
Cathedral Tradition"
41: Colin Durrant and Maria Varvarigou: Perspectives on Choral
Conducting: Theory and Practice
42: Jane Davidson and Robert Faulkner: Group Singing and Social
Identity
43: David M Howard: Intonation and Staying in Tune in A Cappella
Choral Singing
44: Dag Jansson: Choral Singers' Perceptions of Musical
Leadership
PART 7: The Wider Benefits of Singing
45: Stephen Clift and Rebekah Gilbert: Can Singing have a
Beneficial Effect on Lung Function and Breathing for People with
Respiratory Illness?
46: Jane W Davidson and Sandra Garrido: Singing and Psychological
Needs
47: Töres Theorell: The Effects and Benefits of Singing
Individually and in a Group
48: June Boyce-Tillman: Unchained Melody: The Rise of Orality and
Therapeutic Singing
PART 8: Singing and Technology
49: Harm K Schutte: Historical Approaches in Revealing the Singing
Voice, Part 1
50: Harm K Schutte: Historical Approaches in Revealing the Singing
Voice, Part 2
51: Evangelos Himonides: Ave Verum Pentium: Singing, Recording,
Archiving and Analysing within the Digital Domain
52: Garyth Nair (decd), David M Howard, and Graham F Welch:
Practical Voice Analyses and their Application in the Studio
53: Peter Pabon, David M Howard, Sten Ternström, Malte Kob and
Gerhard Eckel: Future Perspectives
Graham Welch PhD has held the UCL Institute of Education (formerly
University of London) Established Chair of Music Education since
2001. He is a Past President of the International Society for Music
Education (ISME) (2008-2014) and elected Chair of the
internationally based Society for Education, Music and Psychology
Research (SEMPRE). He holds Visiting Professorships at universities
in the UK and overseas and is a former member of the UK Arts and
Humanities
Research Council (AHRC) Review College for Music (2007-2015).
Publications number approximately three hundred and fifty and
embrace musical development and music education, teacher education,
the psychology
of music, singing and voice science, and music in special education
and disability. David M Howard was elected Fellow of the Royal
Academy of Engineering in 2016 and in that same year he became the
Founding Head of the new department of Electronic Engineering at
Royal Holloway, University of London, where he has set at its heart
the principle of nurturing creativity in the context of group
working for practical projects in each of the first two years. This
is supported with a creative thinking
space, prototyping lab and fabrication lab with 3-D printers and
laser cutting machines for realising prototype designs. He has been
Editor-in-Chief of Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Vocology and is on
the
Editorial Boards of Journal of Voice, Forensic Linguistics,
Organised Sound, International Journal of Research in Choral
Singing and Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies. In 2014,
David was made an Honorary Member of the Association of Croatian
Choral Directors in which guise he acted as a judge for the
International choir competition in %Sibenik in Croatia in May 2018.
John Nix has a bachelor of music (voice performance, University of
Georgia), a master of music education (arts
administration, Florida State University), a master of music (voice
performance, University of Colorado), and a certificate in vocology
(University of Iowa). He is professor of voice and voice pedagogy
at the
University of Texas-San Antonio, and has an adjunct appointment in
the Department of Speech Language Pathology at the University of
Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio. His mentors include
Barbara Doscher (singing, pedagogy) and Ingo Titze (voice science).
His students have sung with the Santa Fe, Arizona, Chautauqua, St.
Louis, Nevada, Omaha, and San Antonio opera companies, and two of
his current or past students have been master teachers in the NATS
Intern Program. In addition to his
active voice teaching studio, he performs research in voice
pedagogy, literature, and acoustics, having produced 38 published
articles and 8 book chapters.
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