Vocal Health and Pedagogy: Science and assessment

The new edition of this classic text has now been revised and expanded (with completely new chapters on the aging voice, vocal health strategies for choral music educators, and vocal pedagogy and choral singing) and is now necessarily and logically divided into two volumes. The first volume focuses on the science behind the many common problems that afflict voice users and enables understanding of the medical approach to problem analysis. The second volume considers the medical and non-medical issues affecting the human voice, including diagnosis and treatment of voice problems, the effects of physical injury, posture, pollutants and irritants, psychological effects, voice therapy, medication, and much more. The world-renowned contributors, under the general authorship and editorship of Professor Sataloff, present everything that students need for vocal pedagogy courses in schools of music as well as speech and language pathology, and that professional and amateur performers and their teachers must consider in their daily lives. - Publisher.