The importance of The Etude in promulgating ideas that helped shape the early practice of music therapy should not be underestimated.
For much of its publication run The Etude was the largest music periodical in print, reaching its peak circulation of , copies per month in If you have ever wondered why choral singers look to be on a high, here are some of the reasons.
The health benefits of singing are well documented:. Singing widens your circle of friends and some of us go on to the pub afterwards!
Give it a try and see what it can do for you! Accepted for publication: November 11, — The present study investigates the effects of choir music on secretory immunoglobulinA S-IgA , cortisol, and emotional states in members of a mixed amateur choir. Subjects participated in two conditions during two rehearsals one week apart, namely singing versus listening to choral music.
Saliva samples and subjective measures of affect were taken both before each session and 60 min later. Repeated measure analyses of variance were conducted for positive and negative affect scores, S-IgA, and cortisol. Results indicate several significant effects. In particular, singing leads to increases in positive affect and S-IgA, while negative affect is reduced. Listening to choral music leads to an increase in negative affect, and decreases in levels of cortisol.
These results suggest that choir singing positively influences both emotional affect and immune competence. The observation that subjective and physiological responses differed between listening and singing conditions invites further investigation of task factors. Research over the last decade in relation to the effects of the arts on health suggests that the aesthetic is important to our well-being. The delights are not all in the hearing. Studies into the health benefits of singing conducted at Canterbury University showed positive associations between singing and feelings of well-being:.
It is important, however, to capture the evidence of the impact of the arts on health to ensure proper recognition of their effect and the availability of appropriate levels of investment to sustain any positive influences. If you sing in the shower or sing along with the radio, consider taking this raw vocal skill to new heights. That explains why choir singing could feel like a guided group meditation.
Participants reported to feel more relaxed and calm after singing in a group setting. Singing has been proven to enhance social bonding and maintain positive social relationship. Synchrony in large group requires emotional connection which results in much faster social bonding among participants. Further research has shown that singing groups and choirs give people a sense of belonging and helps boost their mood. Singing with proper technique could strengthen your diaphragm, the rectus abdomens, oblique and back muscles.
The movement of singing is a good workout which requires lots of different muscle groups on your face which makes it a natural facial workout.
Singing is also great for lung health. A study has proven that singing has positive impact on the lives of people with lung disease. The diagnoses of dementia can have a huge impact on your life in many ways. Dementia could affect your ability to process information and therefore impact your lifestyle.
There is currently no cure for dementia but you can live well with dementia. Research has found that listening or singing to songs can support people who are living with dementia on both an emotional and physical level.
Singing, especially group singing, has positive effects on the brain and helps people live well with dementia. Neurologically, there is a close, overlapping relationship between overt and imagined singing such as silent rehearsal and singing to yourself. Confident and healthy voice use links to a positive self-concept and an ability to communicate.
Successful singing promotes self-esteem, general confidence and also self-efficacy. The voice is a key component of who we are; its use reflects our mood and general psychological wellbeing, which is communicated to ourselves as well as to others see also educational benefits below.
Singing provides an outlet for our feelings. Through its physical activity and the related internal endocrine system triggering, singing can allow us to feel better about ourselves and about the world around us.
All voice use, including singing, is interwoven with core emotional states that are central to the human condition, such as joy and sadness. Healthy singing enables us to maximise our potential to communicate with others. We learn to improve our underlying vocal coordination, to increase vocal colour timbre and impact intentional variety into our vocal communication.
Singing exercises the basic voice mechanism and improves its functional capability, in childhood and across the lifespan, whatever the context. Successful singing ability is strongly correlated with a positive sense of social inclusion, of a feeling of belonging to our community. Singing with others enhances the possibilities of empathic relationships with those around us. Collective singing, such as in a choir, small group, or larger community gathering generates a positive group identity, as well as physical and psychological benefits.
Singing and social inclusion is also powerfully evidenced in the communal histories of the Baltic States Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
Singing activity fosters our intellectual engagement with music. There are concomitant social and personal benefits through increasing the likelihood of empathic understanding of others and ourselves by the kinds of songs music and text that we experience, whether alone or in groups.
Singing will likely make you more competent in your own language, including an improvement in reading skills. Reading lyrics and reading music are processed in the same neurocortical regions for symbol decoding. These combined benefits suggest that singing is one of the most positive forms of human activity, supporting physical, mental, emotional and social health, as well as individual development in the same areas.
Successful singing is important because it builds self-confidence, promotes self-esteem, always engages the emotions, promotes social inclusion, supports social skill development, and enables young people of different ages and abilities to come together successfully to create something special in the arts.
The above figure illustrates how singing competency left-hand scale develops with age horizontal scale across childhood. Some children were assessed more than once across several years, generating 13, singing assessments in total. Two singing development trend lines are evidenced in the figure:. In addition, analyses of the Sing Up workforce development data suggest that providing Primary school teachers with professional development in the teaching of singing leads to increasing positive self-confidence as a vocal leader, as well as a strong appreciation of the benefits of being part of a peer support network.
Written by Professor Graham Welch. His team undertook a major longitudinal research evaluation of Sing Up when it was first launched.
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