In an opera performance, singers must perform difficult musical repertoire at a high level while dealing with the stress of standing before large audience. Previous literature suggests that individuals better cognitive functions experience less stress. During music performance such functions, especially attention, memory, and executive function, are in demand, suggesting may play role performan...

The present paper examines the documents from Sectoral State Archive of Security Service Ukraine (SSA SSU) and highlights situation in Ukrainian opera art 1920s–1930s. tense atmosphere everyday life an artist era is described based on correspondence two prominent singers—Mykhailo Donets Oleksandr Ulukhanov. exempts their letters, which were preserved case-form Mykhailo Donets, are provided with...

PURPOSE The goals of this study were to determine if there were significant differences between singers and nonsingers in the morphology of vocal nodules and the associated impact on vocal function. METHOD Participants were 10 professionally trained singers with nodules, eight nonsingers with nodules, and 10 individuals with healthy normal voice (controls). Surface electromyography (sEMG) fro...

BACKGROUND self-assessment of the impact of vocal deviation in the quality of life of erudite singers. AIM to verify whether the presence of vocal complaints in erudite singers produces quality of life handicap in the use of singing voice and whether this handicap is related to gender, age, vocal classification or time of singing. METHOD fifty-nine professional erudite choir singers answere...

Five premier male country singers involved in our previous studies spoke and sang the words of both the national anthem and a country song of their choice. Long-term-average spectra were made of the spoken and sung material of each singer. The spectral characteristics of county singers' speech and singing were similar. A prominent peak in the upper part of the spectrum, previously described as ...

This study aims to validate our method for measuring accuracy in a melodic context. We analysed the popular song 'Happy Birthday' sung by 63 occasional and 14 professional singers thanks to AudioSculpt and OpenMusic (IRCAM, Paris, France). In terms of evaluation of the pitch interval deviation, we replicated the profile of occasional singers described in the literature (the slower the performan...

PURPOSE To evaluate the temporal processing of popular singers who do or do not play a musical instrument. METHODS The study population comprised 30 popular band singers. Of them, 15 play a musical instrument (G1) and 15 do them do not play a musical instrument (G2). All of them were submitted to basic audiological evaluation and temporal processing tests: test of frequency standard (TFS) and...

Recent evidence indicates that the majority of occasional singers can carry a tune. For example, when asked to sing a well-known song (e.g., "Happy Birthday"), nonmusicians performing at a slow tempo are as proficient as professional singers. Yet, some occasional singers are poor singers, mostly in the pitch domain, and sometimes despite not having impoverished perception. Poor singing is not a...

OBJECTIVES To report the incidence of allergic rhinitis in singers with nonspecific laryngeal examination findings and to correlate the incidence of allergic rhinitis with their vocal symptoms when present. DESIGN A retrospective review of all the medical records of singers with nonspecific laryngeal findings who presented to a specialty voice center for either vocal training or therapy betwe...