choral singing
The importance of singing is very interesting to me. I have sang my whole life and find it absolutely fascinating and i would like to show you the importance. When you sing, musical vibrations move through you, altering your physical and emotional landscape. Group singing, for those who have done it, is the most exhilarating and transformative of all. It takes something incredibly intimate, a sound that begins inside you, shares it with a roomful of people and it comes back as something even more thrilling: harmony. So it’s not surprising that group singing is on the rise. According to Chorus America, 32.5 million adults sing in choirs, up by almost 10 million over the past six years. Many people think of …show more content…
An exploratory study by Clift and Hancox collected information from students in a university choir about the perceived personal and health benefits that could result from participating in a choir. Eighty-seven percent of the students responded positively in believing that they benefited socially, 75% believed that they benefitted emotionally, 58% thought that they benefitted physically and 22% of the students believed that they experienced reduced stress and anxiety as a direct result of singing. In general, the study found that singing in a choir setting can influence relaxation and stress reduction amongst choir participants.A study performed by Gale et al. examined the quality of life and lung function of cancer survivors after participation in a choir that rehearsed for two hours a week. Although this study did not find that there was any significant change in their lung function after participation in the choir, they did find that the patients involved in the choir had a greater expiratory capacity than those people not in the choir. Other studies have shown that patients with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) who sang twice a week had better respiratory health than those who did not. These findings make sense considering the fact that singing utilizes muscles involved with breathing. By learning how to both regulate your breath and extend your expiratory time, singers are inherently increasing the strength of their
The importance of singing is very interesting to me. I have sang my whole life and find it absolutely fascinating and i would like to show you the importance. When you sing, musical vibrations move through you, altering your physical and emotional landscape. Group singing, for those who have done it, is the most exhilarating and transformative of all. It takes something incredibly intimate, a sound that begins inside you, shares it with a roomful of people and it comes back as something even more thrilling: harmony. So it’s not surprising that group singing is on the rise. According to Chorus America, 32.5 million adults sing in choirs, up by almost 10 million over the past six years. Many people think of …show more content…
An exploratory study by Clift and Hancox collected information from students in a university choir about the perceived personal and health benefits that could result from participating in a choir. Eighty-seven percent of the students responded positively in believing that they benefited socially, 75% believed that they benefitted emotionally, 58% thought that they benefitted physically and 22% of the students believed that they experienced reduced stress and anxiety as a direct result of singing. In general, the study found that singing in a choir setting can influence relaxation and stress reduction amongst choir participants.A study performed by Gale et al. examined the quality of life and lung function of cancer survivors after participation in a choir that rehearsed for two hours a week. Although this study did not find that there was any significant change in their lung function after participation in the choir, they did find that the patients involved in the choir had a greater expiratory capacity than those people not in the choir. Other studies have shown that patients with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) who sang twice a week had better respiratory health than those who did not. These findings make sense considering the fact that singing utilizes muscles involved with breathing. By learning how to both regulate your breath and extend your expiratory time, singers are inherently increasing the strength of their