Singing Skills Research Articles

Simulation of e-learning in vocal network teaching experience system based on intelligent Internet of things technology

With the rapid development of smart Internet of Things technology, education is also starting to use this technology to improve the learning experience. As an art subject, vocal music teaching has many limitations in the traditional face-to-face teaching methods, and e-learning provides new possibilities for vocal music network teaching. We analyze the problems and challenges existing in the traditional face-to-face mode of vocal music teaching, and then based on the intelligent Internet of Things technology, we design a vocal music network teaching experience system. The system combines sound acquisition equipment, intelligent audio processing algorithm, virtual classroom and other technologies to realize the simulation experience of online vocal music teaching. We have developed an intelligent audio processing algorithm for analyzing and processing students’ singing sounds. This algorithm can detect problems in tone, timbre, rhythm, and more, and provide real-time feedback and advice. In this way, students can understand the shortcomings of their own singing skills, and make timely adjustments and improvements. This study shows that e-learning based on intelligent Internet of Things technology has important application value in vocal music network teaching. By simulating the classroom environment and providing real-time feedback, students can obtain a better learning experience and improve their vocal skills.

Application of auditory perception technology to multimodal teaching innovations in college music

Abstract This study explores a university music teaching system enhanced by auditory perception technology. It delves into the intricacies of auditory perception technology and its integration with multimodal music education, highlighting the potential applications in university settings. Using short Fourier transform and wavelet transform techniques, the system computes Mel frequency cepstrum coefficients (MFCCs) and first-order differential dynamic music characteristics. These are then utilized to construct the multimodal teaching framework through computer programming languages. The multimodal music teaching system was tested and analyzed using data analysis software. The results showed that the experimental group and the control group produced significant differences (P<0.05) in the four aspects of fluency (0.005), flexibility (0.003), originality (0.001), and the total score of singing skills (0.004) of music singing skills. This study not only enriches theoretical research on multimodal teaching innovations in music but also promotes the development of university music education.

Effects of Max/MSP Based Orff-Schulwerk Software for Secondary School Music Classes on Singing Skills

Bu araştırma kapsamında, ortaokul müzik dersi kazanımlarının büyük bir çoğunluğunu kapsayan söyleme kazanımı temel alınarak 5. Sınıf müzik kitabından seçilen okul şarkıları Orff-Schulwerk teorisi ile eşliklendirilmiş ve sanal bir eğitim materyali hazırlanmıştır. Hazırlanan yazılımda, şarkılara ait eşlikler ve kullanılan Orff çalgıları somut bir şekilde gösterilmiş, müziğin ana unsurları belirgin bir şekilde aktarılmaya çalışılmıştır. Yazılım, sınıflardaki akıllı tahtalarda kullanılmış, öğretim sürecine daha fazla duyu organının dâhil edilmesi ve bu duruma bağlı olarak başarının artırılması hedeflenmiştir. Çalışmada, “Orff-Schulwerk Yaklaşımı” doğrultusunda oluşturulan müzik eğitim yazılımının öğrencilerin şarkı söyleme becerisi üzerine etkisi ne düzeydedir?” sorusuna cevap aranmıştır. Bu bağlamda, yöntem olarak gerçek deneme modellerinden ön-test-son-test kontrol gruplu deney modeli kullanılmıştır. Çalışma grubu olarak (n=20) 5. sınıf öğrencileri belirlenmiştir. Deney ve kontrol grubuna iki hafta ön uygulama yapılmış akabinde ön-test ölçümleri alındıktan sonra altı haftalık deney çalışması yürütülerek son-test ölçümleri yapılmıştır. Elde edilen bulgulara göre kullanılan Orff-Schulwerk yazılımının şarkı öğretimine büyük oranda katkı sağladığı ve başarıyı artırdığı tespit edilmiştir.

Retracted: Waveform Feature Extraction of Intelligent Singing Skills under the Background of Internet of Things

Retracted: Waveform Feature Extraction of Intelligent Singing Skills under the Background of Internet of Things

The Importance of Emotional Expression in Vocal Performance Art in the Internet Era

Abstract The quality of vocal performance lies in the performer’s skill level, and in this paper, the optimization method of their objective functions is investigated by analyzing the relationship between generators and discriminators of generative adversarial networks. Meanwhile, the attention mechanism framework is introduced, and the attention mechanism is applied to the generator part of the generative adversarial network, which is used to focus significantly on the useful information of text features, thus establishing a GAN network based on the attention mechanism. Then, the importance of emotional expression in vocal performances is analyzed using the improved GAN model. In terms of the enhancement effect on the attractiveness of the performance, high levels of emotional expression increased on average by 24.78% compared to low levels. In terms of enhancing the audience’s aesthetic experience, the high level of emotional expression increased by an average of 25.41% compared to the low level. Regarding the promotion effect of the artistic imagination of the whole performance, the high level of emotional expression increased by 19.76% on average compared with the low level. The importance analysis based on GAN can provide a reference for performers to balance good singing skills and emotional expressions.

Vocal singing skills by cochlear implanted children without formal musical training: Familiar versus unfamiliar songs.

Vocal singing skills in pediatric CI users are not much known due to the limited number of studies. The principal aim of the present study was to evaluate vocal singing skills in Italian pediatric CI users. A further aim was to investigate factors that may significantly influence their performance. The participants were twenty-two implanted children and twenty-two hearing peers. Their vocal singing skills for familiar ("Happy Birthday to You") and unfamiliar songs ("Baton Twirler" from Pam Pam 2- Tribute to Gordon) were evaluated in relation to their music perception (the Gordon test). Acoustic analysis was performed using Praat and MATLAB software. Nonparametric statistical tests and principal component analysis (PCA) were used to analyze the data. Hearing children outperformed implanted peers in both music perception and vocal singing tasks (all measures regarding intonation, vocal range, melody, and memory for the familiar song versus measures regarding intonation and overall melody production for the unfamiliar song). Music perception and vocal singing performances revealed strong correlations. For the familiar and unfamiliar songs, age-appropriate vocal singing was observed in 27.3% versus 45.4% of children, all implanted within 24 months of age. Age at implantation and duration of CI experience were moderately correlated with the total score obtained from the Gordon test. Implanted children show limited vocal singing skills in comparison to their hearing peers. However, some children implanted within 24 months of age seem to achieve vocal singing skills as good as their hearing peers. Future research could be useful to better understand the role of brain plasticity to implement specific training programs for both music perception and vocal singing.

Improving Singing Skills Using the Solfegio Method in Students in Padang City Elementary School

Improving Singing Skills Using the Solfegio Method in Students in Padang City Elementary School

Research on the main techniques and emotional processing methods of American voice singing

In many forms of vocal music performance, Bel Canto singing occupies a very important position, and in the process of Bel Canto singing, singing skills and emotional expression are equally important, the singers should learn to combine the singing technique and the expression of emotion perfectly together, so that they can express the connotation of the singing songs and bring the audience a good experience, let the listener appreciate our wonderful singing voice at the same time, can feel the emotional charm of the song. This article first sings the song the singing skill as well as the song some emotion aspect expression. The theme of this thesis is how to Sing the Blue Sea of love with perfect singing skills and rich expression of emotion. This song was sung at the graduation ceremony of the art song lead singer. And from the greedy angle analyzes the emotion, the breath, the strength and so on lyricism melody and the artistry. In-depth explanation and careful analysis are made. He also refers to the "Blue Sea of love" style from a technical point of view and the emotional expression of his singing ability. From the perspective of theory and practice, the singer’s singing style fully reflects the artistic value of the song.

The Development History of Chinese Music Education in The National Vocal Music Teaching

In elementary school vocal music teaching, in order to be able to cultivate students good artistic sense and ability, master more rich vocal singing skills and emotional expression, into the traditional culture characteristics, development in inheritance, join the primary color, in order to fully express the traditional culture connotation at the same time, to meet the needs of times development, seek a broader space for development.

VOCAL QUARTETS – TRADITION AND MODERNITY

Working in large professional choirs and ensembles extremely evolve the musical singing skills andabilities of each singer. The performance of complicated composer scores, giving "life and emotionality" to thenotes, contributes to the further development, improvement and professional experience of singing choristers. Inwell-established folk choirs and ensembles, as well as the institutions for higher musical education, good performersmeet, and more and more often we witness new vocal quartets - successors to already existing ones.The aim of each newly formed vocal quartet is, on the one hand, to assimilate and imitate an existing one, but on theother hand, to achieve a new, better sonority, vocal unification, mastery of a stylish and effective concert repertoire,attractiveness of its presentation and upgrading at the level achieved by previous quartets, up to this point.. In thefollowing lines, I will present vocal quartets arranged chronologically by their creation: "Sestri Kushlevi", "Balgarka- Dzhuniar", "Slavey" and "Abagar"

Manado children's choice echo trumpet (review aspects of establishment and development)

The purpose of this study was to examine and describe the children's choir of Gema Trumpets, review and how the process of making the Children's Choir of Gema Sangkakala Manado, How is the process of fostering the Children's Choir of Gema Sangkakala Manado, What are the factors that hinder the process? Ordering and coaching the Manado Echo Sangkakala Children's Choir, and What efforts have been made to overcome the obstacles to ordering and coaching the Echo Trumpets Children's Choir. The research method used in this study is qualitative. Data technique is done by observation, interview, documentation study. coaching, namely: After analyzing the data, it was concluded that The reservation of the Gema Sangkakala Manado children's choir was a response to the public's interest, especially choir observers to accommodate the potential of children who have interests and talents in senior vocals, especially in the choir. , as part of the development of the organization (Studio) to contribute to fostering children's attitudes and behavior through the chorus, to motivate in general in cultivating and attracting children's interest in their love of good singing skills through praise, Age limits and parents, as well as children in the Choir by showing the impact of fostering children on a changing process, the management of the process always requires substantial funds by relying only on non-permanent donors, and Efforts which were carried out to overcome various obstacles in the choir, among others, recruiting members followed by b . interviews both for children and parents, involving parents in the preparation of activity programs that are tailored to the child's schedule, fundraising is carried out at any time including scheduling concert programs that are held regularly.

Waveform Feature Extraction of Intelligent Singing Skills under the Background of Internet of Things

Aiming at the complex and changeable characteristics of intelligent singing skills in the context of Internet of Things, this paper proposes a feature extraction method suitable for intelligent singing skills in this context. Firstly, focusing on vocal features, the time-domain algorithm based on open-loop and closed-loop gene extraction extracts the genetic features of songs with accompaniment; then, the section and its features are extracted by using the windowed moving matching algorithm, and the segments are divided by using the similarity between adjacent segments to obtain the segment features with emotional factors. The segment features are input into the improved BP emotion recognizer for emotion recognition. Finally, the intelligent singing skills of the whole music are determined. The experimental results show that, with the increase in feature extraction time, the accuracy of the extraction results of the existing methods changes little, which is basically maintained at a low level between 15% and 30%. When the proposed method is for feature extraction of intelligent singing skill information, the accuracy shows a continuous growth trend, and with the growth of time, its accuracy is significantly higher than the existing methods, indicating that the proposed method has significant advantages in the accuracy of feature extraction. Because this waveform feature extraction method is applied to the intelligent singing skills under the background of the Internet of Things, it has the advantages of high extraction efficiency, high accuracy, and reliability.

The Effect of Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract Exercise (SOVTE) and Traditional Vocal Warm-up (TVW) on the Vocal Quality of Untrained Female Singers in Malaysia: A Comparison

Vocal warm-up has garnered much research attention these recent years. This study compared the short-term effects of straw phonation (SP) with a traditional vocal warm-up (TVW) on the vocal quality of untrained female singers. It also determined the effect of exercise type on the vocal economy and skill acquisition. Vocal quality was measured using voice range profile (VRP), multi-parametric index, acoustic, and aerodynamic parameters. Eighty participants were randomly recruited and divided into two equal groups to perform vocal warm-ups at a frequency of two 10-minute sessions per day for three weeks. Voice data were collected using Praat and Vocalgrama software, while the statistical results were analysed using Statistical Product and Service Solution (SPSS). As a result, some parameters, i.e., fundamental frequency maximum (F0-max), maximum intensity (max Int) and area of VRP, fundamental frequency (F0), jitter, shimmer, harmonics-to-noise ratio (HNR), and dysphonia severity index (DSI), projected significant changes after three weeks of warming up exercise in TVW group. In the SP group, the participants experienced significant changes in max Int and area of VRP only. Both groups did not exert significant changes to min Int, which indirectly measures phonation threshold pressure (PTP), signifying no improvement for the vocal economy. Participants from the TVW group benefitted the most from vocal warm-ups due to notable improvement in vocal quality, technical singing skills (i.e., skill acquisition), and vocal efficiency. Meanwhile, the SP group only benefitted in terms of enhanced vocal efficiency. Acoustic parameters, aerodynamic, dysphonia severity index, semi-occluded vocal tract exercise, traditional vocal warm-up, vocal quality, voice range profile

Intelligent Analysis of Music Education Singing Skills Based on Music Waveform Feature Extraction

In order to improve the effect of intelligent analysis of singing skills in music education, this paper conducts an intelligent analysis of singing skills in music education with the support of music waveform feature extraction technology. Moreover, this paper uses the traditional IMM optimal waveform selection algorithm to solve the model and analyzes the tracking effect and the changes of transmission parameters. Compared with the fixed transmission parameters, the algorithm can effectively reduce the tracking error. From the experimental analysis, it can be seen that the intelligent analysis system for music education singing skills based on the extraction of music waveform features has good effects and can effectively promote the improvement of music singing skills and the improvement of music teaching effects.

The Application of Popular Singing Skills in Musicals

Nowadays pop music gradually develops and advances, pop singing skills are gradually defined and standardized. With its diversified, comprehensive and easy to accept characteristics, musicals are gradually known by the public in China. In order to satisfy the public's aesthetic taste, a large number of pop music elements are added to the current musical market so that pop singing skills can be used in musical dramas. In order to apply what you have learned, this paper takes the lyrics supernatural Troubles and From now on in the musical The Drunk Winner as examples, and briefly discusses how to use pop singing skills reasonably and skillfully in the musical based on my own learning of pop singing skills and musical practice experience.

Online education during the pandemic: new format — new opportunities

The article shows that the year 2020 taught us a lot and opened our eyes to a number of issues. However, it was precisely the Covid situation and the then announced pandemic that allowed many of us to slow down our pace of life a little and take a broader look at the world around us. The author, a well-known variety vocal teacher, reflects on the possibility of training vocal in an online format, while realizing such an essential component of the educational process as mentoring, and shows that the mentoring function is a necessary part of vocal lessons. It can be realized both through the choice of the repertoire and through communication between the teacher and the student. Vocal classes provide such an opportunity in the best possible way, since individual communication involves the transfer of one’s own worldview to the students, who perceive both the idea of the beautiful, and form their own technical singing skills, as well as build their own picture of the world following the teacher.

Issues of musical and vocal education of theater students

The author considers the problem of training specialists in the field of Acting and shows that the need of theaters for actors of a "synthetic" kind (with universal voice capabilities, with a high degree of musicality) is dictated by the increasing role of musical elements in a modern performance and is also determined by the search in modern directing. Theatrical practice demonstrates that the musicality of an actor is a crucial quality of acting. Today, in general, as always, the issues of organizing and implementing vocal education for future actors are among the most complex and energy-intensive. First-year students who come to the theater program track at the higher educational institution either do not have any preliminary vocal training at all, or are trained at the elementary level. Nevertheless, it should be noted that some of them were trained to play musical instruments and have musicality. The article deals with the specifics of working with students, aimed mainly at the formation of basic singing skills, which are associated with the acoustic properties of sound, high singing position, vocal diction, breathing, voice science, i.e. all the things that make up the technology of singing professionalism. Meanwhile, the author shows that this work is not with students of the vocal department, but with future actors of the drama theater. And our task is to educate an artistic and creative person, a participant in the dramatic process, which is all theatrical activity.

Face the music: Children’s facial affect in musical imitation and improvisation tasks

The purpose of this study was to examine facial affect of young children who completed a singing task that included imitation and improvisation. Eighty-nine children (4–6 years: 45 male and 44 female participants) completed three singing conditions from a standard singing test battery (i.e., Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing-Test Battery of Singing Skills [AIRS-TBSS]). These included singing a favorite song, imitating a song, and improvising a song ending. Facial affect was analyzed with Noldus FaceReader software, and subjective responses also were collected. Results revealed children exhibited a happy emotion most prominently during the improvisation and favorite song conditions compared with the imitation condition. However, a higher percentage of surprised emotions were found during the imitation condition. Frequency analysis revealed a significantly different range and final note for the improvisation condition compared with imitation. Children’s self-reported ratings of happiness were related to their displayed facial affect (i.e., happiness) scores in FaceReader ( p < .05). Qualitative data analysis revealed three emerging themes of song familiarity, object association, and song preference. Children exhibited more positive affect when singing a favorite song or improvising. Based on the type of vocal performance task, it is necessary to consider how young children respond to vocal tasks.

Russian methodologies of vocal training applied in a Czech children’s choir

This paper presents a dissertation thesis project that focuses on Russian methodologies of vocal training and their application in a children’s choir, which requires a careful choice of methodologies and methodological approach to organization of choir lessons. The paper begins with a brief description of the history and foundation of the Russian choral school and tradition of choral singing education, followed by a brief overview of the most popular vocal methodologists whose work has been dedicated to vocal training. The final part introduces two modern vocal training methodologies of leading musical trainers. The practical part of the future dissertation will deal with the selection of optimal exercises and their systematic development to help children improve their singing skills and musicality, as well as contribute to the cultivation of good singing habits. The aim is to enable school teachers or kindergarten teachers who are not professional musicians to use successfully the assembled methodology.

ИНТЕРПРЕТАЦИЯ МУЗЫКАЛЬНОГО ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЯ КАК СРЕДСТВО РАЗВИТИЯ АРТИСТИЗМА В ПРОЦЕССЕ МУЗЫКАЛЬНО-ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОГО ВОСПИТАНИЯ БУДУЩИХ УЧИТЕЛЕЙ МУЗЫКИ

Artistry plays an important role in the pedagogical activity of any teacher, but it is of particular importance in the activity of a music teacher, since it is the most important professional quality of the personality of a teacher-musician. Pedagogical artistry, as is well known, consists of an external factor (intonation, diction, expressiveness, musicality, gestures, plasticity, etc.), which is developed through vocal art, and an internal one (spirituality, creative and musical-pedagogical thinking, imagination, etc.), associated with performing skills. Work on the interpretation of the work — improving the vocal technique, competent reading of the musical text, compliance with all the author's remarks, creating a musical and artistic image as a whole, is one of the main components of the formation of artistry. The teacher's artistry presupposes his creativity, creativity, and the ability to navigate in any situation, so the actual pedagogical task is the formation of artistic singing skills in the process of musical and artistic education of future music teachers.