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  Resonance in Singing

    Voice Building through Acoustic Feedback

     by Donald Gray Miller, PhD

Includes full version of VoceVista-Pro software for Windows, with support for live audio and electroglottograph input.

Includes multimedia player for all examples included in the text for Windows and Mac OS-X

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    Many teachers have been stumbling in the dark looking for good resonance adjustments.  A systematic approach like the one presented here can prevent people from exploring methods that simply cannot work.  This information can make any teacher more efficient and can allow students to help themselves rather than remaining forever dependent on the opinions of others.
    —Paul Kiesgen, Indiana University

    Discussions of registers, resonance, and specifically the nomenclature pertaining to them, have accounted for more misunderstandings in the study of vocal technique than perhaps any other subject.  Miller has created a distinctive multimedia tool that aligns the disciplines of voice pedagogy and voice science through the use of VoceVista technology.
   —Christopher Arneson, Westminster College of the Arts

    The missing link in pedodical writing is a systematic approach that shows precisely how acoustic feedback can be used to greatest effect. Donald Miller’s Resonance in Singing, fills this gap. For the first time, singers are provided with the tools to fully understand the application of resonance. With the help of VoceVista, a singer friendly voice analysis program, Miller demonstrates how to locate formants (resonance hot spots) in the singing voice, and more importantly, how to tune them for optimal vocal beauty. He successfully demystifies voice registration events, showing how the source (vibrating vocal folds) interacts with the filter (vocal tract), and how acoustic feedback and appropriate vowel modification (a.k.a. formant tuning) helps one navigate those pesky transition areas.
    Science will never replace art in singing and teaching. But it can—and does—inform the art, enabling singers to perform with optimal beauty and vocal efficiency through a technique that is grounded in fact, not wishful thinking. Pioneers like Donald Miller are at the forefront of this movement. It is not coincidental that Miller is among that exceptionally rare breed: he is a trained scientist who also is a successful professional singer and college singing teacher. His work will help us all become better singers and teachers, while moving voice pedagogy toward full integration with scientific reality.
   —Scott McCoy, American Academy of Teachers of Singing

    I cannot think of a more important vocal pedagogy manual in the last twenty years and although I lack the eloquence to properly recommend this wonderful book, I hope the sincerity of my endorsement is clear. I encourage you to buy this book, whether you are already well versed in vocal acoustics or are completely new to the discipline. I also encourage you to pass this information to friends in the field.
    —Jean-Ronald LaFond, DMA (click here for Dr. LaFond's full review)

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Resonance in Singing
Voice Building through Acoustic Feedback

Table of Contents

                  Introduction
                  Foreword
                  How to Approach this Book
Chapter 1    Pavarotti: King of Second Formant Tuning (click to view pdf version of chapter 1)
Chapter 2    The Signals of VoceVista
Chapter 3    Harmonics and Spectra
Chapter 4    Formants and the Vowel Space
Chapter 5    Practical Science
Chapter 6    A Map for Navigation
Chapter 7    The Voice Source and Natural Registers
Chapter 8    Registers in Male Voices
Chapter 9    Registers in Female Voices
Chapter 10  The Male Upper Extension
Chapter 11  Female Middle Voice
Chapter 12  Practical Formant Tuning
                  Afterword
                  Abbreviations and Conventions used in this Book
                  Glossary
Appendix I   Frequencies of the Equal Tempered Scale
Appendix II  Table of Figures and VoceVista Examples
                  Index

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Windows
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Mac
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