The Effect of Attentional Focus on Singing Voice Quality: Towards the Interdisciplinary Experimental Investigation of Singing Pedagogy

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dc.contributor.advisorBalthrop, Carmenen_US
dc.contributor.advisorHewitt, Michael Pen_US
dc.contributor.authorMentzel, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMusicen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-22T06:10:26Z
dc.date.available2016-06-22T06:10:26Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractInstructional methods employed by teachers of singing are mostly drawn from personal experience, personal reflections, and methods encountered in their own voice training (Welch & Howard, 2005). Even in Academia, singing pedagogy is one of the few disciplines in which research of teaching/learning practice efficacy has not been established (Crocco, et al., 2016). This dissertation argues the reason for this deficit is a lack of operationalization of constructs in singing, which, to date has not been undertaken. The researcher addresses issues of paradigm, epistemology, and methodology to suggest an appropriate model of experimental research towards the assessment of teaching/learning practice efficacy. A study was conducted adapting attentional focus research methodologies to test the effect of attentional focus on singing voice quality in adult novice singers. Based on previous attentional focus studies, it was hypothesized that external focus conditions would result in superior singing voice quality than internal focus conditions. While the hypothesis was partially supported by the data, the researcher welcomed refinement of the suggested research model. It is hoped that new research methodologies will emerge to investigate singing phenomena, yielding data that may be used towards the development of evidence-based frameworks for singing training.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2DR33
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18358
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMusicen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMusic educationen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledKinesiologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAttentional focusen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMotor learningen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMusic educationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSingingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledVocal pedagogyen_US
dc.titleThe Effect of Attentional Focus on Singing Voice Quality: Towards the Interdisciplinary Experimental Investigation of Singing Pedagogyen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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