With an international reputation for research and teaching in music and music technology, and being particularly famed for its training of singers, the University of York is ideally situated to strengthen future research and teaching in voice science, and particularly singing.
Teaching and learning benefits
Guest lectures from academics working in different departments deliver methods, aims and outputs of the cutting edge research taking place at the Centre for Singing Science, to equip our students with a comprehensive knowledge of voice to support their education at York.
Guest lectures from academics working in different departments deliver methods, aims and outputs of the cutting edge research taking place at the Centre for Singing Science, to equip our students with a comprehensive knowledge of voice to support their education at York.
Research benefits
York Centre for Singing Science provides an ideal platform for the world-leading innovative singing research taking place at York. Teaching and research is integrated across several departments ensuring quality research outputs and grant proposals crossing conventional boundaries.
York Centre for Singing Science provides an ideal platform for the world-leading innovative singing research taking place at York. Teaching and research is integrated across several departments ensuring quality research outputs and grant proposals crossing conventional boundaries.
Context
As the understanding of voice production and perception advances, this knowledge needs to be framed in the context of performance. For example, the environmental challenges facing an opera singer, including large orchestras and sometimes dense compositional textures, require different acoustic strategies compared to the close-microphone conditions in which a jazz singer performs. This has further implications when considering historical singing practices, wherein science can inform modern interpretations of surviving literary and physical sources.
As the understanding of voice production and perception advances, this knowledge needs to be framed in the context of performance. For example, the environmental challenges facing an opera singer, including large orchestras and sometimes dense compositional textures, require different acoustic strategies compared to the close-microphone conditions in which a jazz singer performs. This has further implications when considering historical singing practices, wherein science can inform modern interpretations of surviving literary and physical sources.