Are Real-Time Displays of Benefit in the Singing Studio? An Exploratory Study

Journal of Voice

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-34

  Howard, David M ^a   Brereton, Jude ^a   Welch, Graham F ^b   Himonides, Evangelos ^b   DeCosta, Michael ^c   Williams, Jenevora ^c   Howard, Andrew W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c York ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d SARAND Business IT Solutions   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Singing pedagogy; Technology in singing lessons; Voice analysis

Indexed keywords

ACTION RESEARCH; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PEDAGOGICS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGING; SPEECH THERAPY; STUDENT; TEACHER; TEACHING; TECHNOLOGY; VOICE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; LEARNING; PHONATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOFTWARE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY; TEACHING; VOICE QUALITY; VOICE TRAINING;

EID: 33845972302     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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