The Impact of Bel Canto Principles on Vocal Beauty , Energy and Health PODIUM 2010

Vocal Disorders and Risk Factors Affecting It: Voice Ergonomics in Teachers

Introduction: Nearly a third of people work in jobs that use voice to be part of their work. Teachers as the largest group of professional vocal users, are at risk of vocal disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of different risk factors on vocal disorders in teachers.   Material and Methods: This is a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytic study that was conducted on...

Vocal Pedagogy and Pedagogical Voices

Bel Canto is Italian for “beautiful singing”. The present paper considers vocal training in the Bel Canto tradition, in part, because it has, for over 200 years, been the dominant form of vocal training in Western classical music[1] 1 . The Bel Canto tradition has also been the subject, in recent years, of textbooks that attempt to codify, or at least document, the teaching techniques which hav...

Re-Discovering the Art of Bel Canto

Investigating the Voce Faringea: Physiological and Acoustic Characteristics of the Bel Canto Tenor's Forgotten Singing Practice.

Several historical sources from the first half of the 19th century mention a distinct third register mechanism particular to tenor voices of that period. This so-called voce faringea-often described as an "intermediate" register-is a virtually forgotten historical singing practice used to extend the upper range of the voice, where the singer modifies falsetto, typically a weak and often feminin...

The Search for Underlying Principles of Health Impact Assessment: Progress and Prospects; Comment on “Investigating Underlying Principles to Guide Health Impact Assessment”

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a relatively young field of endeavour, and hence, future progress will depend on the planning, implementation and rigorous evaluation of additional HIAs of projects, programmes and policies the world over. In the June 2014 issue of the International Journal of Health Policy and Management, Fakhri and colleagues investigated underlying principles of HIA through ...