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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.
Contents
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
