LOST (1.5 m) by Cordula Däuper and Johannes Müller (review)

The singer, in an extravagant black-tie concert event ballgown, continuously interrupted herself and started over. [...]the crisis more directly addressed by Cordula Däuper and Johannes Müller's concept and adapted libretto was the sluggish response to climate change in a world where the ruling class is superbly distracted by their own comfort. Except for mild discontent, the heaps of plastic bags, bottles, and crumpled soda cans did not greatly seem to bother any of them.

COVID-19 and the Ugandan Presidential Election: Contesting Lockdown Authority in Popular Songs

The COVID-19 pandemic struck when Uganda was in the middle of an acrimonious campaign season, in which longstanding president Yoweri Museveni was being challenged by Bobi Wine, a reggae singer turned politician. When Museveni imposed a strict lockdown, musicians sympathetic to Wine responded with songs about COVID-19 that challenged the government's short-term, biopolitical demarcation of the national emergency. Pier and Mutagubya interpret a selection of Ugandan COVID-19 pop songs from 2020, considering in musical-historical perspective their various strategies for re-narrating the health crisis.

COVID-19: Impact on the Musician and Returning to Singing; A Literature Review.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to review current literature of the impact of COVID-19 on musicians and returning to singing. METHODS: A comprehensive search of peer-review articles was completed using PubMed, GoogleScholar, Scopus, and Web of Science. The search was completed using many key terms including voice, hoarseness, dysphonia, aphonia, cough, singers, and public speakers. The bibliography from each article found was searched to find additional articles. The search process revealed 56 peer-reviewed articles, 18 primary articles, ranging from the years 2019 to 2020. CONCLUSION: COVID-19 has had a major impact on singers and other musicians worldwide. It can affect the voice and can lead to paresis/paralysis of laryngeal nerves to long-term changes in respiratory function. There is a risk from aerosolization/droplet formation transmission with singing, and with playing wind and brass instruments that can be mitigated by following COVID-19 guidelines. Ways to reduce possible transmission during singing and instrument play include virtual rehearsals or performances, mask-wearing, instrument covers, smaller choirs, performing outside, excellent ventilation being socially distanced, shorter rehearsals, regularly cleaning commonly touched surfaces and washing hands, avoiding contact with others, and temperature screening.

How Can I Keep Them Singing? Exploring 'Tumult and Strife' in Male Adolescent Voice Change

Within the field of music education, there is extensive literature that speaks to the importance of singing for an individual's musical development (Williams, 2019;Welch, 2012). Aside from its musical benefits, Welch (2012) identifies the role of singing in improved respiratory and cardiac function, communication skills, and sense of social inclusion. With a more thorough understanding of TIVC, music educators will be better equipped to assess their students' voices and address their vocal needs during voice change. By expanding vocal pedagogy lessons to include voice change and its impact on vocal anatomy, music educators can provide clarity for adolescent boys as they navigate their changing voices.

Opera Pasticcio in Eighteenth-Century Opera: Work Concept, Performance Practice, Digital Humanities Warsaw, 13–14 May 2021

[...]numbers could be moved from one opera to another with no detriment to the latter work's dramatic structure, so long as they still reflected the emotions expressed by the original. Initially planned as an in situ event, the Covid-19 pandemic meant that it took place online, which – despite the lack of human contact – helped boost the number of observers and the reception of the event among opera and theatre scholars. Berthold Over (Universität Greifswald), in his paper ‘The Art of Cooking a Pasticcio: Musical Recipes and Ingredients for Pasticcio Operas’, employed culinary analogies to explain the concept of ‘unity in diversity’ that was typical of this genre. Barbara Wiermann (Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden), in ‘Source Studies – Authority Data – Digital Musicology’, highlighted the fluid concept of the work in the pasticcio genre and also the diversity of the relevant sources, which today results in numerous problems with standardizing data.

Interactive Teaching System for Remote Vocal Singing Based on Decision Tree Algorithm

As the global pandemic rapidly spreads, distance learning is emerging as a new method of instruction. Particularly, traditional courses that must be taught in-person, such as vocal singing instruction, require immediate adaptation to the COVID-19 and the new distance learning model. However, in the process of distance learning, it is frequently impossible to tailor and personalize instruction, particularly for vocal singing courses. Educational researchers are confronted with the pressing issue of how to extract useful and personalized patterns from a large volume of learner data in order to customize and individualize instruction. In this paper, we propose applying the decision tree method from data mining technology to a vocal singing education system by categorizing students according to the model. Once the characteristics of various learners have been stored in the corresponding user database, teachers can access timely information regarding the learners’ most recent learning situation. This can be used as the basis for differentiating instructional strategies for various learners. This allows the instructor to designate individualized teaching and learning strategies for each student.

Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian: Welcome Party. Horrocks-Hopayian, Ziazan, Clowes, Giles, London Symphony Orchestra, Hargreaves, Morant, Choir of Girton College, Cambridge, Wilson. NMC, NMC D268

The first track is Muted Lines, for Horrocks-Hopayian's voice, Trish Clowes’ saxophone and John Hargreaves’ London Symphony Orchestra. The track transitions into a jazzy saxophone solo that had me feeling as though I'd walked into the wrong movie theatre;afterwards, though, she makes sense of the harmony by folding the blue note into her singing in an expert way both as composer and vocalist. Ser (‘love’ in Armenian) uses only that word as its text in a stirring choral work written to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

Positive Vibes: Love Yourself Today

The performance, from Christmas 2019, and more importantly the audience reaction captured by the filmmakers, are powerful reminders of the value of live music to Irish cultural life, and the loss represented by the shuttering of venues like Vicar Street during the Covid-19 pandemic. Packy's quiet encouragement of a young boxing pupil;Nadia's affection for the women and men in her counselling programme;Jonathan's love of sea-swimming;Damo's embrace of nature on the slopes and forests of Howth Head, the Dublin landmark that looms over the northside suburbs where he was born and raised. Much of Motherland's short-form work is infused with the social realism and sense of place that infuses Love Yourself Today, characteristics that set the film apart from other Irish music documentaries and concert films more generally.

The Phenomenon and Development of K-Pop: The Relationship between Success Factors of K-Pop and the National Image, Social Network Service Citizenship Behavior, and Tourist Behavioral Intention

This study aims to understand the impact of six success factors of K-pop on the national image of Korea perceived by global viewers and SNS citizenship behavior. In addition, this study seeks to validate the impact of the national image of Korea/SNS citizenship behavior, as defined in the foregoing, on tourist behavioral intention. Our analysis was conducted within the theoretical frameworks of the SERVQUAL, Image Theory, and the Theory of Planned Behavior. To that end, 1247 global viewers (eight countries) who have listened, watched and searched for information on K-pop are surveyed. Four statistical programs (SPSS/SmartPLS/GSCA Pro/JASP) are used for regression analysis and structural equation modeling. The results indicate the following. (1) Four K-pop success factors (producers, casting, producing/promotion, and contents) demonstrate a statistically significant positive influence on national image. (2) Two K-pop success factors (casting and producing/promotion) demonstrate a statistically significant positive influence on SNS citizenship behavior. In addition, K-pop contents has a statistically significant positive influence on SNS citizenship behavior (only in SPSS). (3) National image has a statistically significant positive influence on SNS citizenship behavior;and national image and SNS citizenship behavior have a statistically significant positive influence on tourist behavioral intention. As an exemplary cultural product, K-pop is creating economic added value. It is necessary to establish the measures to integrate K-pop in product planning and PR for sustainable marketing for Hallyu tourism.

‘Viva Malta’: national unity, loyalty and the familiar in a post-independence Maltese song

In the years following its independence from Britain in 1964, Malta experienced several changes socially, politically, economically and culturally. In part, these arose from the fact that after independence Malta, as a small Mediterranean island-country, had to take full control of its own destiny, including its economy and politics. At approximately the same time a band called The Malta Bums was set up and eventually gained popularity both locally and further afield. Their 1967 release of ‘Viva Malta’ achieved unprecedented success and is still hugely popular today. This article analyses this song in its historical, cultural and social context. It discusses how and why this track became so popular at that time and is still popular nowadays. For that purpose, it scrutinises its music and lyrics, as well as the production process and how each one of these built on the familiar to convey sentiments of national unity central to the loyalty that the lyrics call for.

When Life Gives You Lemons, Reach for the Donut: Lessons Learned from a Year of Virtual Choir

Shared via YouTube, social media, or other online platform, the video becomes the performance. [...]by showing the individuals who contributed to the music together on screen, it visually confirms the collaboration that has taken place and thus reifies that the performance is by a "choir". [...]from real-time free improvisation via Zoom to online shape note singing groups via livestream chains, musicians have found numerous ways to continue collaboration without meeting in a shared geographic space;one of the true silver linings of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the wealth of creative solutions that musicians have adapted to overcome the dearth of in-person rehearsal and performance opportunities.2 For musical ensembles whose typical collaborative processes involve learning composed music (either by rote or from notated scores) and subsequently sharing their work with an audience via concert presentation, the methodologies of so-called "virtual choir" have offered a modified means of attaining those goals. [...]virtual choir was a preferable alternative to no choir at all. [...]more importantly, the experience of working in this manner offered a unique opportunity to hone different musical skills and to reflect on how ideas gained from a year apart may inform, enhance, and redirect how we work together as an ensemble. Because of our pre-established history of working together, our experiences may not represent those of choristers who join virtual-only choirs, or, who joined a virtual choir after the COVID-19 outbreak.

DON'T GIVE UP OR GIVE UP TRYING? DOES SINGING REALLY MATTER NOW? LUKA'S DILEMMA IN THE PANDEMIC CONTEXT

Dilema: Fazer ou não uma "live". Objetivo educacional: O caso foi elaborado com o intuito de discutir questões relativas a cenários de crise e tomada de decisão, além de trazer perspectivas de análise de mudanças advindas de interações entre aspectos internos e externos às organizações. Nas notas de ensino constam 6 objetivos de aprendizagem associados, principalmente, a análise do ambiente, metáforas organizacionais, decisões não programadas e os elementos de decisão. Contextualização: O surgimento de um contexto pandêmico gerou uma crise mundial que acabou impactando a indústria da música de diversas formas. Um dos impactos concerne a popularização um novo formato de produção musical (as "lives"). Um cantor e compositor de 30 anos, Luka, teve seus objetivos profissionais comprometidos em virtude dessa situação pandêmica e, juntamente com o pessoal da sua agência, esse precisava avaliar as possíveis consequências envolvidas na decisão de aderir ou não a realização de uma "live";tendo que desenvolver potencialmente novas habilidades para encarar esse cenário. Tema principal: Cenários de crise e tomada de decisão. Público: O caso pode ser explorado por alunos a nível de graduação e/ou pós-graduação (lato e/ou stricto sensu). Originalidade / valor: Por meio desse caso os alunos podem identificar a presença de elementos teóricos numa situação prática, associando-a, por exemplo, às conceituações de metáforas propostas por Morgan (2007) para conceber a natureza de uma organização.Alternate :Dilema: Hacer o no una transmisión en vivo. Objetivo educativo: El caso fue diseñado para discutir temas relacionados con escenarios de crisis y toma de decisiones, además de traer perspectivas para analizar los cambios que surgen de las interacciones entre los aspectos internos y externos de las organizaciones. En las notas didácticas hay 6 objetivos de aprendizaje asociados con, principalmente, el análisis del entorno, metáforas organizacionales, decisiones no programadas y elementos de decisión. Contextualización: El surgimiento de un contexto pandémico generó una crisis global que terminó impactando a la industria musical de varias formas. Uno de los impactos se refiere a la popularización de un nuevo formato de producción musical (conciertos con transmisión en vivo). Un cantante y compositor de 30 años, Luka, vio comprometidas sus metas profesionales debido a esta situación de pandemia y, junto con el personal de su agencia, necesitaba evaluar las posibles consecuencias que conlleva la decisión hacer o no una transmisión en vivo;teniendo que potencialmente desarrollar nuevas habilidades para afrontar este escenario. Tema principal: Escenarios de crisis y toma de decisiones. Público: El caso puede ser explorado por estudiantes de grado y/o posgrado (lato y/o stricto sensu). Originalidad / valor: A través de este caso, los estudiantes pueden identificar la presencia de elementos teóricos en una situación práctica, asociándolos, por ejemplo, con las conceptualizaciones de metáforas propuestas por Morgan (2007) para concebir la naturaleza de una organización.Alternate :Dilemma: Whether or not to hold a live stream concert. Educational objective: This case was designed to address issues related to crisis scenarios and decision-making. It also brings some different perspectives for analyzing the changes that have taken place in the interactions between internal and external aspects of organizations. The teaching notes present six learning objectives, mainly related to analysis of the environment, organizational metaphors, unscheduled decisions, and elements of decision-making. Contextualization: The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic context has generated a global crisis that has affected the music industry in several ways. One of the impacts has been the popularization of a new music production format: live stream events. Luka, a thirty-year-old singer songwriter, found his professional goals severely hampered by the pandemic outbreak and, along with his agency's staff, he had to assess the possible consequences involved in the decision on whether or not to hold a live stream concert, given that he would have to potentially develop new skills to face this scenario. Main topic: Crisis scenarios and decision-making. Target Audience: This case can be explored by students at undergraduate and/or graduate level (lato and/or stricto sensu). Originality/value: This case can help students identify theoretical elements in a practical situation, and associated them, for example, with conceptualizations of the metaphors proposed by Morgan (2007), in order to understand the nature of a given organization.

How Participation in Group Singing in the Community Impacts on Emotional Wellbeing: A Qualitative Study on the Perspectives of Group Singing Participants

The prevalence of group singing in Australia is replicated globally (Kirsh et al., 2013). [...]the impacts of ceasing in-person choir participation, as reported by Daffern et al. Sun and Buys (2016) for example, found participatory group singing for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults was associated with improved physical health, resilience, a sense of connectedness, social support, and improved mental health status. [...]a recent systematic review of wellbeing outcomes for adults with mental health conditions found group singing could be a promising social intervention (Williams et al., 2018). [...]Von Lob et al.

Women and Music in the Early Modern Age Palácio Nacional de Queluz, 2–4 July 2021

Taking the career of Violante Vestri (c1725–1791) as an example, and illustrating with the famous engraving dedicated to her in 1750 by Marc'Antonio Dal Re, Alessandra Mignati (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan;Università di Napoli Federico II) proposed some thoughts on the history of female performers, the audience's expectations, the importance of seduction in theatre and the significance of the support from prestigious personalities. Artistic rivalry was approached by Benoît Dratwicki (Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles) in a paper dedicated to the quarrels of singers at the Académie royale de musique in the eighteenth century, which examined the public and private issues involved and their media misappropriation. A number of these women came from families of professional musicians, while others were seasoned prima donnas;a small handful were local adolescents selected to receive musical training. Dance was also the subject of a single paper: ‘From Feuilleton to Gender Studies: Marie Sallé under the Eyes of Critics’, by Silvia Garzarella (independent scholar, Milan).

Ninth Biennial Conference of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Stockholm, 6–7 and 13–14 August 2021

The other papers were a smorgasbord that included English and French luxury goods at London pleasure gardens that were produced by slave labour in the West Indies (Ashley Greathouse, University of Cincinnati), the unpublished music treatise of the musician-turned-astronomer William Herschel (Sarah Waltz, University of the Pacific), early London musical-miscellany publications that presented excerpts from Handel's operas in new and surprising ways (Alison DeSimone, University of Missouri–Kansas City) and my own paper concerning a satire on French provincial orchestras (Beverly Wilcox, California State University Sacramento). Faith Lanam (University of California Santa Cruz) gave an update on her latest research on the Vezerro de lecciones manuscript, a collection of solfeggi by Feo, Leo and Ignacio Jerusalem that was used to train lower-status girls to enter high-status Mexico City convents as choir nuns. [...]Louise K. Stein (University of Michigan) presented new documentation about the first opera productions in the Americas, La púrpura de la rosa (Lima, 1701), Celos aun del aire matan (Mexico, 1728), El Zeleuco (Mexico, 1710) and La Partenope (Mexico, undated), explaining how they travelled via Spanish diplomatic networks from Naples and Madrid to the colonies and observed a number of typically Spanish performance conventions. Most used the Zoom desktop client, but a few relied on mobile phones, and about half left their cameras off during the talks, so that the audience conserved bandwidth while still giving speakers the sort of visual feedback that a live audience normally provides.

The spread of breathing air from wind instruments and singers using schlieren techniques.

The spread of breathing air when playing wind instruments and singing was investigated and visualized using two methods: (1) schlieren imaging with a schlieren mirror and (2) background-oriented schlieren (BOS). These methods visualize airflow by visualizing density gradients in transparent media. The playing of professional woodwind and brass instrument players, as well as professional classical trained singers were investigated to estimate the spread distances of the breathing air. For a better comparison and consistent measurement series, a single high note, a single low note, and an extract of a musical piece were investigated. Additionally, anemometry was used to determine the velocity of the spreading breathing air and the extent to which it was quantifiable. The results showed that the ejected airflow from the examined instruments and singers did not exceed a spreading range of 1.2 m into the room. However, differences in the various instruments have to be considered to assess properly the spread of the breathing air. The findings discussed below help to estimate the risk of cross-infection for wind instrument players and singers and to develop efficacious safety precautions, which is essential during critical health periods such as the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Sources of Aerosol Dispersion During Singing and Potential Safety Procedures for Singers.

INTRODUCTION: With respect to the Covid-19 pandemic, singing is assumed to be associated with a high potential person-to-person transmission. However, it remains unclear how the impulse dispersion varies with different types of articulation, intensity levels of diction, or body position. Furthermore, it has not been understood in detail how to prevent aerosol dispersion during singing. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Single professional singers from the Bavarian Radio Chorus were asked to sing in different head positions, with different articulation patterns and different masks after inhaling the basic liquid of an e-cigarette. The vapor cloud was segmented and tracked over time. RESULTS: Consonants and exaggeration of diction enhanced the distance reached by the impulse dispersion. Furthermore, the greatest dispersion was reached for a neutral head position. All protection masks stopped the initial jet of the aerosols but the FFP2 masks were the most effective. CONCLUSION: Some protection equipment has been identified to be promising in reducing aerosol dispersion. However, systematic effects have to be evaluated in greater collectives.