HBK5 - Research projects and results

    European voice teachers are just beginning to establish themselves as researchers, so one further aspect of the project was to encourage research and present results of projects either completed or under way.  

5.1.1. Perceptions of the Singing Voice (PDF, 16KB)

          Dr. S. J. Susan Yarnall-Monks (University of Chichester, UK)

Brief resumé given at EVTA teaching week at Ljubljana 25th February 2011
PhD thesis summary July 2007 University of Sheffield Music Department

This study takes a multi-disciplinary approach to examine the layers of meaning given to vocal timbre when singers talk about their voices. Three different approaches are taken for the Phase I exploration; semi-structured interviews with solo, choral, amateur and professional singers, questionnaires for school students and singing teachers featuring recordings of different vocal genres and diaries of the vocal experiences of professional singers.

Three aspects of vocal identity are discussed: reflection and construction of the voice and expression using the voice.(continued here...)

5.1.2. On the use of digital technology in teaching singing (PDF, 79 KB)

           Sylvain Lamesch, France 

        Results of an initial research project in co-operation with AFPC EVTA-France;

        Sylvain Lamesch for the Documentation Eurovox 2012 (Parallel Translation in German)

Initially, there seem to be very few connections between digital technology and teaching singing. The aim of this research project is to get initial information on technology, how much singing teachers use it, how they use it, and how they could use it.
What is meant with digital technology for teaching singing? These resources can be divided into 3 groups. Firstly, the Internet offers many sources of information and materials: scores, translations, videos, recordings. The second type of resources involves equipment: computers, but also sound cards, audio/video recorders, etc. and the third kind of resource is software: voice analysis, video editor, apps, etc. This short categorization shows that digital technology covers a broad range of many different elements, and that some of these, particularly the Internet resources, are doubtless already used by students as well as teachers. (continued here....)

 5.1.3.  Nagl-Salieri-Stimmfeldmessung - German version (PDF, 10KB)

            Elke Nagl, Werner Jocher

5.1.4. Stimme & Live Elektronik - German version (PDF, 10 KB)

5.1.5. Learning to teach singing with spectograms  - A project idea for music universities (PDF, 9 KB)

             Katrin Müller-Höcker - Munich, 26th Mai 2011