Vocal health and pedagogy. Volume II, Advanced assessment and practice / edited by Robert Thayer Sataloff, MD, DMA.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sataloff, Robert Thayer, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voice disorders.

Voice--Care and hygiene.

Voice.

Voice culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

San Diego, California ; Oxford, England : Plural Publishing Inc., 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This 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 present everything that students need for vocal pedagogy or speech and language pathology coursework, and that professional and amateur performers and their teachers must consider in their daily lives.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments to the Second Edition; Contributors; 1. Common Medical Diagnoses and Treatments in Patients with Voice Disorders: Introduction and Overview; 2. The Effects of Age on the Voice; 3. Hearing Loss in Singers and Other Musicians; 4. Allergy; 5. Respiratory Dysfunction; 6. Endocrine Dysfunction; 7. Performing Arts-Medicine and the Professional Voice User: Risks of Nonvoice Performance; 8. Bodily Injuries and Their Effects on the Voice; 9. Seating Problems of Vocalists; 10. Nutrition and the Professional Voice; 11. Sleep and the Vocal Performer

12. Pollution and Its Effect on the Voice13. Artificial Fogs and Smokes; 14. Psychological Aspects of Voice Disorders; 15. Performance Anxiety; 16. Medications and the Voice; 17. Medications for Traveling Performers; 18. Introduction to Treating Voice Abuse; 19. Speech-Language Pathology and the Professional Voice User: An Overview; 20. Voice Therapy; 21. Voice Rest; 22. Increasing Vocal Effectiveness; 23. The Singing Voice Specialist; 24. The Role of the Acting-Voice Trainer in Medical Care of Professional Voice Users; 25. Exercise Physiology: Perspective for Vocal Training; Appendix IA

Appendix IBAppendix IIA; Appendix IIB; Appendix IIC; Appendix IID; Appendix IIE; Appendix IIF; Appendix IIG; Appendix IIH; Appendix II I; Appendix IIIA; Appendix IIIB; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 30, 2015).

ISBN:

1-59756-849-X