The purpose of the research is to highlight creative achievements Ukrainian opera singer Viktoriia Lukianets in collaboration with three prominent contemporary tenors: Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras, and Placido Domingo (the latter both as a conductor). Research methodology. In course searching analyzing relevant literature, historical, textual, source methods were used. work continued not on...

Singers are extremely conscious of health problems that affect their voices and well-being and often take an active role in seeking care for these problems. They frequently seek treatment from providers or with modalities considered "alternative" to traditional medical care. A survey of singers was completed to elucidate their attitudes and practices regarding "alternative modalities" of medica...

Childhood adversity is identified as any exposure to abuse, neglect or family dysfunction. Greater exposure to childhood adversity has been strongly identified with increased morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to examine differences in creative experiences, fantasy proneness, dispositional flow, exposure to adult traumatic events, and psychopathology (internalized shame, trait a...

A previous study highlighted the effect of vocal technique on the singing voice accuracy of trained singers. The intervals' precision between the notes of the tune was altered when the singers used Western operatic singing technique. In order better to understand these results, we have recorded two different melodies sung with two different vocal techniques. A large panel of trained singers (n ...

In this study we examined the effect of reducing linguistic information on singing proficiency in occasional singers. Thirty-nine occasional singers were asked to sing from memory and to imitate three familiar melodies with lyrics and on the syllable /la/. Performances were analyzed with an acoustically based method yielding objective measures of pitch and temporal accuracy. Results obtained in...

The problem of identifying singers in music recordings has received considerable attention with the explosive growth of the Internet and digital media. Although a number of studies on automatic singer identification from acoustic features have been reported, most systems to date, however, reliably establish the identity of singers in solo recordings only. The research presented in this paper at...

On 22 September 2011 the OPERA collaboration published a paper which communicated their results concerning the measurement of the neutrino velocity, which appeared to have exceeded the speed of light. If confirmed, this would imply a huge anomaly for the theory of relativity and physics in general. It took until July 2012 for the OPERA collaboration to figure out this was due to an internal err...

This collective case study documented university choral students’ (N = 4) hearing doses, acquired through Etymotic Personal Noise Dosimeters (ER200D), as they rehearsed and performed a program of opera choruses during five time periods in three venues. Acquisition periods included one choir only rehearsal, two choir-orchestra-soloist rehearsals, and two public performances with choirorchestra-s...