Singing auditions often mark the beginning, or end, of a singer's career. In this study, we observed the singing audition process to gain entry to music college.
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Mitchell, H. F., & Kenny, D. T. (2008). The tertiary singing audition: Perceptual and Acoustic Differences between Successful and Unsuccessful Candidates. Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, 2(1).
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Mitchell, H.F., & Kenny, D.T. (2007). The vocal audition process: Do you hear what I hear? In: K. Maimets-Volk, R. Parncutt, M. Marin & J. Ross (Eds.) Proceedings of the third Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM07) Tallinn, Estonia, 15-19 August 2007, http://www-gewi.uni-graz.at/cim07/
This study assessed expert listeners’ perceptual evaluations of the vocal performances of tertiary level classical singing students over two complete years of training.
Vibrato is an integral and desirable feature of the classical singing voice. For elite singing students, achieving and developing vibrato may constitute one of the essential elements of their vocal training, although it is not necessarily a focus of that training. In this longitudinal study, we measured vibrato rate (VR) and vibrato extent (VE) and regularity (SD) of VR and VE in student singers over the course of four semesters of tertiary level voice training at a conservatorium of music to determine how these parameters changed during training.
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