The 21st-Century Voice: Contemporary and Traditional Extra-Normal Voice

by Michael Edward Edgerton

Overview

In The 21st-Century Voice: Contemporary and Traditional Extra-Normal Voice, Michael Edward Edgerton considers contemporary vocal techniques within an acoustic and anatomical framework. Throughout, he proposes new directions for vocal exploration. Much more than a historical treatise on 20th-century masterworks or vocal science, The 21st-Century Voice explores experimental methods of sound production, offering a systematic series of approaches and methods for assessing, engaging, and, in some instances, overcoming the assumed limits of vocal singing.

Appearing a decade after the publication of the first edition, this second editiondraws on and advances our current understandings of voice production. Divided into four parts—air flow, source, resonance/articulation, and heightened potentials—Edgerton considers crucial matters affecting vocal production, such as

1. Registral challenges
2. Filtering
3. Airflow modification
4. Combinatorial, multiphonic principles
5. Extreme voice possibilities
6. Multidimensional vocal issues

With more than 250 illustrations, 150 associated audio tracks, an extended appendix on voice science, a glossary of key terms, and lists of representative compositions, The 21st-Century Voice will appeal to composers and performers interested in exploring the ever-broadening range of vocal possibilities. Its engagement with the complexities of vocal production should also be relevant to students and scholars of voice science, acoustics, linguistics, computer modeling, and more. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810888401
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/16/2015
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Michael Edward Edgerton is a composer and performer who has received awards and recognition in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including the important German prize, the Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart, in 2007. Influenced by the study of voice science, psychoacoustics and ethnic music, his compositions apply physical and perceptual models to multidimensionality & Nonlinear Phenomenon. Although his music is highly technical, it is his intuition – his ear that gives birth to the music. His compositions have been performed by ensembles and soloists around the world. His research into voice, acoustics, and perception has been published in leading scholarly journals.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Recordings
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Airflow
Chapter 1: Airflow
Part II: Source
Chapter 2: Vocal Folds
Chapter 3: Laryngeal Semi-Periodic Source
Chapter 4: Registral
Part III: Resonance/Articulation
Chapter 5: Filtering
Chapter 6: Turbulent To Absolute Airflow Modification
Part IV: Heightened Potentials
Chapter 7: Combinatorial, Multiphonic Principles
Chapter 8: Extremes
Chapter 9: Multidimensional Voice
Part V: Appendices
Appendix A: Voice Science
Appendix B: Glossary
Appendix C: Representative Compositions
Index
About The Author
Permissions