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Free Your Body, Free Your Singing: The Effect of Body Awareness Training on Singers' Vocal Function and Performance.

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Title/Author:	Free Your Body, Free Your Singing: The Effect of Body Awareness Training on Singers' Vocal Function and Performance./
Author:	Chen, Ting-Yu.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	115 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-09, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-09A.
Subject:	Performing arts education. -
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ISBN:	9781658486354

Free Your Body, Free Your Singing: The Effect of Body Awareness Training on Singers' Vocal Function and Performance.
Chen, Ting-Yu.

Free Your Body, Free Your Singing: The Effect of Body Awareness Training on Singers' Vocal Function and Performance. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 115 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-09, Section: A.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Shenandoah University, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Many singers seem to lack sensory experience to notice when they hold excessive muscle tension, inefficient postures, and therefore unnatural physical presences while singing and moving. Common physical manifestations related to the lack of body awareness in singers include but are not limited to bodily discomfort, limitation of vocal production, reduced breath support, disconnect between the voice and body movement, and the lack of confidence in movement while singing (Chen, 2017, 2018a, 2018b; Chen et al., 2018). These conditions compromise singers' vocal function and artistic impact on their audiences, both factors that singers' livelihood and success depend upon (Chen, 2017, 2018a, 2018b; Chen et al., 2018; Conable & Conable, 1992; Friedlander, 2018; Malde, Zeller, & Allen, 2013). Many singers may understand rationally that they should engage freedom and ease in the body while singing. They often lack sensory knowledge to affect change (Blades, 2018; Chen, 2017, 2018a, 2018b; Chen et al., 2018; Malde et al., 2013). The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of body awareness training on singers' perception of their vocal function and on external evaluators' perception of the quality of their performance. The researcher conducted a sixty-minute body awareness workshop as an intervention, aiming to facilitate greater conceptual clarity and deeper sensory experiences of body-mind coordination through movement meant to enhance ease and support for singing and movement. The body awareness intervention was grounded in empirical research and the researcher's professional expertise (Chen, 2017, 2018b). Specifically, the intervention incorporated the principles of mindful body, accurate anatomical knowledge, body conditioning, tension and release, and application of efficient neuromuscular movement patterns. A pretest-posttest control group design randomized experiment, specifically, 2 (intervention: body awareness, control: lecture on vocal health) x 2 (time: pretest, posttest) factorial mixed design was used. The participants' perception of their vocal function was operationalized using Phyland et al.'s (2013) Evaluation of the Ability to Sing Easily instrument (EASE) while the external evaluators' perceptions of participants' vocal performance were measured using the revised National Association of Teachers of Singing Student Auditions Adjudication Form (NATS). Twenty-seven healthy adult singers were recruited using snowball sampling and then randomly assigned to the experimental (n=14) or control (n=13) conditions. A 2-way mixed ANOVA was used to test the hypotheses of the two research questions: 1) Do participants who experience a body awareness training report a significant increase in their perceived vocal function when compared to participants who attend a lecture on vocal health? 2) Do participants who experience a body awareness training show a significant increase in performance when compared to participants who attend a lecture on vocal health? Research question one's interaction effect hypothesis was statistically significant, meaning that participants who experienced a body awareness training perceived a significantly greater improvement in their perceived vocal function when compared to those who attended a lecture on vocal health. Research question two's interaction effect hypothesis was not statistically significant. While there was a greater increase in the performance scores for participants who experienced a body awareness training when compared to those who attended a lecture on vocal health, this increase was not statistically significant. The study results illuminate that the body awareness training contributed to participants' heightened sensory connection to the body and facilitated their singing and moving with more ease (Blades, 2018; Chen, 2017, 2018a, 2018b; Chen et al., 2018; Conable & Conable, 1992; McKinney,1982; Meitlis, 2015; Nelson & Blades, 2018; Shusterman, 1999) thereby significantly increasing their vocal function. The researcher recommends a longitudinal mixed-methods future research that pairs a voice teacher and a dance professional in private lesson setting to track a group of students over time. These findings should encourage singers to include the body awareness practice into their warm-up routine for better vocal function that may lead, through sound voice technique and regular practice, to a mastery of voice performance (Blades, 2018; Chen, 2017, 2018a, 2018b; Chen et al., 2018; Conable & Conable, 1992; McKinney,1982; Meitlis, 2015; Nelson & Blades, 2018; Shusterman, 1999).

ISBN: 9781658486354Subjects--Topical Terms:

3173434
Performing arts education.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Body awareness

Free Your Body, Free Your Singing: The Effect of Body Awareness Training on Singers' Vocal Function and Performance.
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