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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797346103321

Titolo

Vocal health and pedagogy . Volume I Science and assessment / / edited by Robert Thayer Sataloff ; contributors, Ronald J. Baken [and fifteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Diego, California ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Plural Publishing Inc., , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-59756-848-1

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Disciplina

616.855

Soggetti

Voice disorders

Voice - Care and hygiene

Voice culture

Voice - Physiological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Contributors""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The Physics of Sound""; ""3. Music and the Brain""; ""4. Clinical Anatomy and Physiology of the Voice""; ""5. An Overview of Laryngeal Function for Voice Production""; ""6. Laryngeal Function During Phonation""; ""7. Vocal Tract Resonance""; ""8. Voice Care Professionals: A Guide to Voice Care Providers""; ""9. Patient History""; ""10. Special Considerations Relating to Members of the Acting Profession""; ""11. Physical Examination""; ""12. The Clinical Voice Laboratory""

""13. The Singing Teacher in the Age of Voice Science""""14. Historical Overview of Vocal Pedagogy""; ""15. Choral Pedagogy and Vocal Health""; ""Appendix I. International Phonetic Alphabet""; ""Appendix IIA""; ""Appendix IIB""; ""Appendix IIIA""; ""Appendix IIIB""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

The new edition of this classic text has now been revised and expanded (with completely new chapters on children's singing, the aging voice, vocal health strategies for choral music educators, and vocal pedagogy and choral singing) to the extent that the work is now necessarily and logically divided into two volumes. This first volume focuses on the



science behind the many common problems that afflict voice users and enables understanding of the medical approach to problem analysis. World-renowned clinicians and scientists, under the general authorship and editorship of Professor Sataloff, cle