Practices for Monitoring, Habilitation and Rehabilitation

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Action research: the students learn the concepts by being involved in the resolution of practical expercises, experimenting voice recording protocols and real-time feedback software for the monitorization of particular aspects of voice producting in speech and singing. Lecturing: using audiovisual demonstrations of the processes involved when practicing vocal exercises dedicated to voice habilitation e rehabilitation.

Learning Outcomes

• Develop extensive knowledge in acoustics of the voice applied to speech and singing
• Identify particular phonetic and articulatory characteristics in different linguistic contexts
• Know how to develop perceptual tests and their possible applications in the study of the speaking and singing voice
• Acquire competences in using technological resources to monitor the speaking and singing voice and in their applications in educational and th eurapeutical settings
• Identify and apply vocal techniques to habilitate and otimise the speaking voice, explainging the theoretical rationale behind such approaches
• Identify and apply vocal techniques to habilitate and otimise the singing voice, explaining the theoretical rationale behind such approaches
• Identify and apply vocal techniques to rehabilitate the voice, knowing the theoretical rationale behind such approaches

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

• Voice acoustics: particularities of the speaking voice
• Voice acoustics: particularities of the singing voice in diferent musical genres
• Sound propagation in rooms
• Articulatory strategies in speech and singing
• Phonetics of the voice in diferent linguistic contexts
• Protocols for voice assessment
• Parameters for voice evaluation in speech and singing
• Methods of perceptual evaluations
• Listening tests
• Technological resources for real-time feedback of production of speech and singing
• Particularities of the voice in vocal ensembles
• Tecniques to habilitate the voice for verbal communication: in education, theatre, cinema, radio and TV
• Tecniques to habilitate the voice for artistic communication: in music theatre, classical singing and comercial contemporanean music
• Theory and practices for voice rehabilitation: breathing techniques, vocal function exercises, resonant voice therapy, semi-occluded vocal tract gestures, flow phonation methods

Head Lecturer(s)

Filipa Martins Baptista Lã

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Self-evaluation of the speaking voice applying one of the learnt methodologies for perceptual voice (40% of the final classification)+1audio-visual recording of a vocal coach session (for speech or singing) during with spectrographic displays to feedback of the voice (40% of the final classification)+individual written report on this experience (20% of the final classification). Scale 0-20: 100.0%

Bibliography

• Bozeman, K.W. (2013). Practical Vocal Acoustics: Pedagogic Applications for Teachers and Singers, Vox Musicae: The Voice, Vocal Pedagogy and Song Series Nº. 9. New York: Pendragon Press.
• Kent, R.D. & Ball, M.J. (2000). Voice Quality Measurement. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.
• Lã FMB. (2012). Teaching Singing and Technology. In: Basa KS, ed. Aspects of Singing II - Unit in Understanding - Diversity in Aesthetics. . Nürnberg Vox Humana: 88-109.
• Nair, G. (1999). Voice – Tradition and Technology: A State-of-The-Art Studio. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.

- Shrivastav, R. & Wingate, J. (2006). Perceptual Attributes and Assessment of the Singing Voice. In M.S. Benninger & T. Murray (Eds.). The Performer’s Voice. San Diego: Plural Publishing Inc. pp. 103-116.