Measured parameters of vocal performance in young actors and singers

基于文献的研究对年轻的声音是非常有限的，一般定性的性质，集中在感性的“措施”的声音，如音调和范围。很少有定量的数据来支持关于导致这些音调质量的机制的假设，更重要的是，目前还没有年轻人声音的发展模型。成人歌手的声乐表演有相当好的记录，有几个关于成人歌手的详细研究和全面的理论模型。然而，由于缺乏对年轻歌手声音的可靠的量化研究，导致声乐界对年轻人的声音如何发展、训练的效果以及男孩和女孩声音之间的差异缺乏了解。如果没有一个全面的年轻人的歌唱声音模型，这种缺乏了解的情况可能会继续下去，并可能导致年轻人学习唱歌的问题，如果成人模型应用于年轻人的声乐训练。年轻人的声乐系统在结构上与成人的声音有显着不同，在组织结构，声道尺寸，肺活量和声门配置的差异。在青春期，发声系统也会发生快速变化。因此，适用于成人声音的理解模型不能适用于儿童或青少年，并且以成人的方式对待年轻人的声音可能具有潜在的破坏性。本研究的目的是分析当代商业音乐（CCM）声音风格训练的儿童歌手和演员的声乐表演，为了建立一个发声模型，以阶段的方式进行发声训练和青春期发声发展对儿童和青少年嗓音的影响。CCM的训练和发声风格与“经典”技术有很大不同，对这一研究不足的领域的理解是开发综合模型的一个极其重要的部分。这将使传播到音乐界的年轻歌手的声音，这将有助于在技术的发展通知一个很好的理解声乐system.This研究遵循以前的工作由首席研究员，其中的声音在一个“古典”风格的儿童歌手训练进行了分析，并开发了一个通用的声乐模型的年轻古典歌手的表现。研究CCM学生的结果，然后将与此模型相结合，制定一个一般模型的发展可测量的声乐参数的年轻歌手和演员在“古典”和CCM风格。该研究采用定量数据分析。数据将从英国戏剧艺术学校8-18岁年轻人声音的统计学上可行的样本记录中收集。学生将被记录使用一个共同的方法，使用声学（麦克风）和喉相结合的录音。该方法包括记录年轻歌手在唱歌课上的位置，使用标准的声乐评估协议，在一些以前的研究中定义。该研究将作为一个试点项目，检查统计上可行的个人声音数量，并分析其结果的已知标准，如培训时间和声乐发展阶段来自平均口语F0。人们认为，该项目提供了一个机会，以建立一个更大的理解在不同的歌唱风格的训练对声乐生产的影响，允许在儿童和成人的声乐发展的详细的理论模型的发展，这将巩固发展和歌唱技术的教学。除了歌唱制作的模型外，这些数据还将加强目前对口语的研究。研究成果将包括向研究界和声乐表演界传播。

Research based literature on the young voice is extremely limited and generally qualitative in nature, focusing on perceptual 'measures' of the voice such as tone and range. There is very little quantitative data to back up assumptions made about the mechanisms which cause these tonal qualities, and more importantly there is currently no developmental model of the young voice.Vocal performance of adult singers is reasonably well documented, with several detailed studies on adult singers and comprehensive theoretical models. However, the lack of solid quantifiable research on the voice of young singers has led to a lack of understanding in the vocal community about how young voices develop, the effect of training and the difference between voices in boys and girls. Without a comprehensive model of the singing voice of young people, this lack of understanding is likely to continue, and could cause problems for young people learning singing if adult models are applied to vocal training of young people.The young vocal system is structurally significantly different to the adult voice with differences in tissue structure, vocal tract dimensions, lung capacity and glottal configuration. The vocal system also changes at a rapid rate over the period of adolescence. Models of understanding applicable to adult voices cannot therefore be applied to children or adolescents, and it could be potentially damaging to treat young voices in an adult fashion.The aim of this study is to analyse vocal performance of child singers and actors training in contemporary commercial music (CCM) voice styles, in order to develop a vocal model of the effect on child and adolescent voices of vocal training in a stage manner and of pubertal vocal development. CCM styles of training and voice production differ considerably from 'classical' technique, and an understanding of this under-researched area is an extremely important part of developing a comprehensive model. This will allow dissemination of an enhanced understanding of the voices of young singers into the music community, which will help in the development of technique informed by a good understanding of the vocal system.This study follows previous work by the principal investigator in which voices of child singers trained in a 'classical' style were analysed, and which developed a general vocal model of the performance of young classical singers. The results of studying CCM students will then be combined with this model to formulate a general model of development of measurable vocal parameters of young singers and actors in both 'classical' and CCM styles. The study uses quantitative data analysis. Data will be collected from the recording of a statistically viable sample of young voices aged 8-18 years from theatre arts schools in the UK. Students will be recorded using a common methodology, using a combination of acoustic (microphone) and laryngographic recordings.The methodology involves recording young singers on location during singing lessons, using a standard vocal assessment protocol as defined in a number of previous studies. The study will be used as a pilot project, examining a statistically viable number of individual voices and analysing their results in terms of know criteria such as length of training and stage of vocal development derived from mean spoken F0. It is felt that the project offers the opportunity to build a far greater understanding of the effect on vocal production of training in different singing styles, allowing the development of a detailed theoretical model of vocal development in children and adolescentswhich will underpin development and teaching of singing technique. In addition to a model of singing production, the data will also enhance current research on the spoken voice. The outputs of the research will include dissemination to both the research and the vocal performance communities.