Choral Societies

Original Choral Compositions and Community Music Making

Body pain in classical choral singers.

PURPOSE To identify and characterize the presence of body pain related to voice usage in choral singers. METHODS A questionnaire investigating the occurrence of voice problems, vocal self-evaluation, and a report of body aches was given to 50 classical choral singers and 150 participants who were non-singers. Thirteen types of aches were investigated that were distributed into two groups: lar...

Choral reading with filtered speech: effect on stuttering.

This study investigated use of choral reading with filtered components of speech and whispered speech on the frequency of stuttering. Three passages read by a normal adult male were lowpass filtered with kneepoint frequencies at 100 Hz (approximate glottal source), 500 Hz (source and first formant), and 1 kHz (source and the first two formants). Along with a whispered passage, a normal passage,...

The use of choral hydrate in pediatric electroencephalography.

OBJECTIVE Sleep is a known activator of epileptiform discharges on electroencephalography. Chloral hydrate is used frequently for electroencephalography sedation. Our objectives were to study the value and limitations of chloral hydrate. METHODS One hundred and fifty nine consecutive pediatric electroencephalograms were included prospectively. One electroencephalography technologist collected...

Mindful Thinking about Choral Singing and Its Pedagogy

You may be an undergraduate college or university student who aspires to be a choral teacherconductor. Some research data suggest that your choice initially to pursue this interest may stem from previous participation in a high school or middle school, church, or community choir (Bergee, Coffman, Demorest, Humphreys & Thornton, 2001). The significant meanings you attributed to that involvement ...