- Title
- Sensational synthesis: an investigation of the art of the female professional singer’s performance of multiple vocal genres
- Creator
- Carson, Susan L.
- Relation
- University of Newcastle Research Higher Degree Thesis
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2024
- Description
- Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Description
- Multi-Genre Singing (MGS) is an art comprised of creative and technical processes. This study aims to contribute to the formulation of a systematic understanding of these processes. It gathers accounts, explores creative experiences and collates performative features of singing a selection of Classical and Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) genres from the perspective of the female professional practitioner. It draws on three data sources: existing vocal performance and pedagogy literature on multi-genre singing techniques; interview participant lived experiences of MGS; and personal, creative, and technical insights from the creation of a multi-genre creative work. Practical, reproduceable methods, approaches, and techniques of eighteen professional female multi-genre singers are investigated through interviews. Findings from the literature and interview responses are compared with objective and subjective observations from the preparation and recording of the creative work: a thirteen-track album of nine original songs and four cover versions in nine genres. Iterative analysis of the insights from all data sources contribute to the formulation of a framework for technical analysis of vocal production parameters. Concepts and schemas for multi-genre singing (MGS) are derived from the framework. The outputs of the research therefore include the creative works, frameworks for their analysis and evaluation, and a set of working schemas relevant to the challenge and experience of female multi-genre singing.
- Subject
- multi-genre singing; vocal performance; vocal pedagogy; crossover singing; female singing practitioners; creative practice
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1504022
- Identifier
- uon:55432
- Rights
- Copyright 2024 Susan L. Carson
- Language
- eng
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