View Poster Paper Sessions > Monday, July 4
posted on 3:07 PM, February 28, 2022
12 – 2 p.m. (Exhibit Hall -Grand Ballroom II-III, 7th Floor)
- A modular framework for singing instruction. Presenter: Chadley Ballantyne
- A modular approach organizes each lesson around two to three tasks that can be introduced and then applied in a progressive approach from introduction through discovery and learning, and then to application in repertoire. This approach can maximize each moment of contact time in an empowering lesson focused on learning and discovery.
- A modular approach organizes each lesson around two to three tasks that can be introduced and then applied in a progressive approach from introduction through discovery and learning, and then to application in repertoire. This approach can maximize each moment of contact time in an empowering lesson focused on learning and discovery.
- The Singers Guide for Discovering Diverse Repertoire: Tools and Resources for Programming Inclusively and Diversely. Presenter: Logan Contreras
- This presentation will introduce and encourage instructors of voice and researchers of vocal music to expand their knowledge of repertoire by composers from underrepresented groups, including women, non-binary, people of color, and members of the LGBTQIAA+ communities. Included will be information on the Kassia Database, the Institute for Composer Diversity Art Song Works Database, online and hard resources, suggested music for developing singers, and featured composers.
- This presentation will introduce and encourage instructors of voice and researchers of vocal music to expand their knowledge of repertoire by composers from underrepresented groups, including women, non-binary, people of color, and members of the LGBTQIAA+ communities. Included will be information on the Kassia Database, the Institute for Composer Diversity Art Song Works Database, online and hard resources, suggested music for developing singers, and featured composers.
- Rediscovered Reverie: The Art Songs of Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844-1931). Presenter: Madeline Harts
- This presentation focuses on the art songs of Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844-1931), an English American soprano, pedagogue, and composer active during the early twentieth century. Once lost to time and anonymity, Rogers’ work is now being "rediscovered" for modern audiences and assists in returning another woman's identity and repertoire to the compositional canon. The poster session examines her fascinating life and times, provides an overview of her song composition style and its subsequent pedagogical use for singers. As a practical guide for teachers, a cataloguing of available published manuscripts will also be provided.
- This presentation focuses on the art songs of Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844-1931), an English American soprano, pedagogue, and composer active during the early twentieth century. Once lost to time and anonymity, Rogers’ work is now being "rediscovered" for modern audiences and assists in returning another woman's identity and repertoire to the compositional canon. The poster session examines her fascinating life and times, provides an overview of her song composition style and its subsequent pedagogical use for singers. As a practical guide for teachers, a cataloguing of available published manuscripts will also be provided.
- The Composition and Implementation of Vocalises for the Musical Theatre Singer. Presenters: Casey Keenan Joiner and Shayna Tayloe.
- By analyzing the existing vocalise literature by means of a specialized set of parameters, including but not limited to melodic variation, rhythmic complexity, vowel utilization, and technical targeting, we have composed a set of vocalises meant specifically to address the training and conditioning of musical theatre voices. These vocalises target many pedagogical tenants in the musical theatre genre, including but not limited to thyroarytenoid-dominant production, twang resonance, lateral vowel formation, and “belt-mix.” By implementing these vocalises in the musical theatre voice studio, pedagogues can efficiently communicate proper musical theatre vocal posture and kinesthetic connection to their students, regardless of age or level of experience.
- By analyzing the existing vocalise literature by means of a specialized set of parameters, including but not limited to melodic variation, rhythmic complexity, vowel utilization, and technical targeting, we have composed a set of vocalises meant specifically to address the training and conditioning of musical theatre voices. These vocalises target many pedagogical tenants in the musical theatre genre, including but not limited to thyroarytenoid-dominant production, twang resonance, lateral vowel formation, and “belt-mix.” By implementing these vocalises in the musical theatre voice studio, pedagogues can efficiently communicate proper musical theatre vocal posture and kinesthetic connection to their students, regardless of age or level of experience.
- Convergences in the Articulatory Settings of Bulgarian, Russian, and English: Bulgarian Lyric Diction as an Accessible Gateway to Singing in Cyrillic. Presenter: Theodora Nestorova
- Bulgarian still remains an unfamiliar language and underexplored repertoire in the North American voice training studio, tending to be overshadowed by other more well-known Slavic languages and repertoires. This study evaluates the convergences and divergences of articulatory settings and acoustic properties found in sung and spoken Bulgarian, Russian, and North American English. Results, conclusions, and implications include that studying Bulgarian lyric diction first may serve as an effective pathway for singers in training who wish to approach other Slavic languages written in Cyrillic script.
- Bulgarian still remains an unfamiliar language and underexplored repertoire in the North American voice training studio, tending to be overshadowed by other more well-known Slavic languages and repertoires. This study evaluates the convergences and divergences of articulatory settings and acoustic properties found in sung and spoken Bulgarian, Russian, and North American English. Results, conclusions, and implications include that studying Bulgarian lyric diction first may serve as an effective pathway for singers in training who wish to approach other Slavic languages written in Cyrillic script.
- Silent Inspiration and Perceptions of Timbre. Presenters: Nancy L Roberts and Jonathan Nero
- Silent inspiration has long been an important tenet of healthy vocal production but how does a silent breath affect our perception of a singer’s timbre? This research project examined the preferences of college-level singers when listening to the same phrase sung with both a silent and an audible breath.
- Silent inspiration has long been an important tenet of healthy vocal production but how does a silent breath affect our perception of a singer’s timbre? This research project examined the preferences of college-level singers when listening to the same phrase sung with both a silent and an audible breath.
- VoceVista in the Diction Classroom - Practical Applications. Presenter: Dana Zenobi
- This poster shares the results of an academic year in which VoceVistaVideo software was utilized as a teaching tool in undergraduate Diction courses. It presents ways the technology was scaffolded into the course structure, beginning with refining consonant phoneme production, progressing to working with diphthongs, and further progressing to more advanced acoustic work on cardinal and mixed vowel definition. Poster presentation will include examples of technology-based homework assignments and in-class activities.
- This poster shares the results of an academic year in which VoceVistaVideo software was utilized as a teaching tool in undergraduate Diction courses. It presents ways the technology was scaffolded into the course structure, beginning with refining consonant phoneme production, progressing to working with diphthongs, and further progressing to more advanced acoustic work on cardinal and mixed vowel definition. Poster presentation will include examples of technology-based homework assignments and in-class activities.
- The Effect of Focused Listening Activities on Undergraduate Singers' Vocal Production. Presenter: Dana Zenobi
- This poster presents the results of a 2011 study of approximately 40 undergraduate singers’ response to structured listening activities (without phonatory practice). Listening activities were inspired by focused auditory stimulation, a speech language pathology remediation technique. Measures included musical accuracy (pitch and rhythm), relative duration of vowel vs. consonant phonemes, use of vibrato, and ratio of power between overtone bands above and below 2 kHz.
