Myonghwa Park, Eunjeong Choi, Miri Jeong, Hyun-Ju Seo, Jahyeon Kim, Eunkyung Seo
Interprofessional Educational Needs for Shared Governance of Integrated Care
International journal of integrated care
pedagogy classical vocal singing difficult determine human voice fach especially voice aspiring vocalists hence objective metricbased system determination human voice needed present study investigated anthropological aerodynamic parameters 60 professional singers professionally confirmed singing range amongst 60 included professional singers ten participants sopranos mezzosopranos altos female vocal fach tenors baritones basses male vocal fach airflow measurements recorded using spirometry whilst anthropological measurements taken using ct scans appropriate statistical analyses done using mannwhitney u test kruskal wallis h test posthoc tests bonferroni correction p 005 considered statistically significant soprano singers highest pitch found shortest least heavy whilst basses lowest pitch found tallest heaviest amongst study participants furthermore sopranos smallest lung volumes basses largest lung volumes raw spirometry measures however normalized ratios considered differences observed finally laryngeal size showed sexual dimorphism due developmental changes mix anthropological aerodynamic measurements may useful assist singers vocal pedagogues assess determine voice types beginning vocal studies